On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 10:50:35AM -0600, Graeme Humphries wrote:
> stan wrote:
> 
> >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.
> > 
> >
> Ahh well, I figured it'd be something like that. In any case, we're 
> doing server side compression, and I can't stress enough that you'll 
> need tons of CPU horsepower on the backup box if you're backing up a 
> large number of systems. Usually, items from our disklist take about 1/4 
> of the time to blow out to tape that they take to actually dump to the 
> holding disk, and the bottleneck is totally the server side compression. 
> Luckily, fast processors are cheap these days. ;)


Which sort of leads directly back to the original question. Which of the 2
bxes I mentioned originally would have the most CPU poweer?

I'm failry certian it's the Ultra 40, but I could be wrong.

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