Main bottlenecks of Wintel platform are SCSI buses and (usually one) PCI
bus. For example in many PC servers you cannot have both SCSI RAID adapter
and FC adapter without performance penalty. Usually only high-end (4 proc
and above) servers have more than one *primary* PCI bus. Others have only
one primary and the rest are through PCI-PCI bridge.
For those 250 GB/night Intel server ought to be enough but I am curious
why to downgrade.

Zlatko Krastev
IT Consultant




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Subject:        Win 2K VS AIX

Has anyone on this list performed any performance tests on Windows
2000K/Intel VS AIX/RS-6000's or have any general comments concerning the
Windows 2000 VS AIX TSM configuration.  We have around 2TB in storage and
pass around 250GB a night to the server.

We are planning on an upgrade and are currently using a RS/6000 H70 and
have
no complaints with this platform at all.  One of our vendors is offering a
Win 2K platform - I've always been a bit concerned using the Intel
hardware
configuration for this application ( Performance ).

Any comments or suggestions would be appreciated

Thanks
Mike Walker


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