Re: Optimizing disk throughput on quad Opteron

On Oct 23, 2006, at 4:59 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote:

>> If I had $50k budget, I'd be buying the SunFire X4500 and running
>> Solaris + ZFS on it.  However, you're limited to 2 dual core
>> Opterons,
>> it seems.
>
> The HP 585 will give you quad dual core :)

but can you sling the bits to and from the disk as fast as the
X4500?  the speed numbers on the i/o of the x4500 are mind-numbing.