Hi Mike and Brian,
Do we have a spec list for the current motherlode?
This would be useful for me as I try to respond to sites asking
about new equipment purchases.
Speaking of sites asking about new equipment purchases, the climat
specialist at South Dakota State is asking us to comment on the
following machine they are thinking about purchasing:
* Processor: Two Quad Core Xeon L5420 (2x6MB Cache, 2.5GHz) 1333MHz FSB
* Memory: 32 GB (8x4GB quad ranked DIMMs)
* Disk: Two 73GB 15k rpm SAS 2.5" (HotPlug) on raid 1
* Raid: Integrated SAS/SATA RAID 1, PERC 6/i Integrated/SAS6/iR
* Controller: PERC6i SAS (256MB cache)
* OS: No floppy drive or OS (we will go with CentOS 5.x)
* Network: Two embedded Broadcom gigabit
* Optical: SATA CDRW/DVD-ROM
* Power: Redundant, dual power cords
* Support: 5 year, NBD onsite
[Attached: specs in HTML format]
It would cost us around 6 to 7K. We were thinking of bumping up the
hard disk size and go with two 320 or 500 GB 10k SATA 3.5" drives
instead of SAS. We don't intend to archive data on this server; just
channel the IDD stream, and therefore I chose 73GB SAS. In the next 5
years, though, if need to archive data for any reason a bigger disk
would help.
I will greatly appreciate your thoughts on this server. In comparison
to this our current ingester has humble configuration.
Without knowing what is in the current motherlode, the listing above
struck me as being the same class of machine. Am I correct in this
view?
Cheers,
Tom
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