On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 09:46:22AM -0600, Graeme Humphries wrote:
> stan wrote:
> 
> >I've narrowed the choice of machines down to one of 2 Sun Models. Either a
> >W2100Z, or a Ultra 40. I plan on using an Ultrim tape drive, and doing
> >compression on the server, so I need lot's of CPU power, and of course high
> >I/O throughput.
> >
> >I was wondering what people thought about this selection?
> > 
> >
> Is Sun a requirement in your environment? Just asking, as a dual-core 
> AMD64 would most like be much cheaper, would still give you enough 
> performance to max out the tape write speed, and runs Solaris x86 quite 
> nicely from what I hear. Our current backup server is an old dual Athlon 
> MP 2400+ (running Ubuntu), and *it* has no problem maxing out the tape 
> I/O from two SATA drives in RAID-0. It does struggle on the server-side 
> compression though, which is why we're looking at moving to a newer dual 
> core AMD64.

It's one of those "corporate political corectness" things. Management
recognizes the nae, and if I sugest a "non name brand", I have to a +lot_
more expalining.


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