On Apr 6, 2006, at 12:47 AM, Leigh Dyer wrote:
> I'm sure those little SAS drives would be great for web servers and
> other non-IO-intensive tasks though -- I'd love to get some X4100s
> in to replace our Poweredge 1750s for that. It's a smart move
> overall IMHO,
For this purpose, bang for the buck would lead me to getting Dell
1850 with hardware RAID and U320 drives. The quick-n-dirty tests
i've seen on the FreeBSD mailing list shows the disks are much faster
on the 1850 than the X4100 with its SAS disks.