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mary_itohan
Posting Yak Master
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 Posted - 2007-11-07 : 19:57:32
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| which is better ?No sentiments please, no cursing or haters. I need sincere opinionsthanksYes O ! |
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eyechart
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker
3575 Posts |
Posted - 2007-11-07 : 20:40:27
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| it really makes no difference at this point. We are currently specing our systems with Intel quad core CPUs. Before this we were using AMD Opterons. The quad-cores let us use 2U boxes and get equivalent computing power as the larger 4U boxes we used in the past. So if that is important then I suggest Intel. AMD also has Quad cores out or soon to be available, so that point might be moot now.-ec |
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Kristen
Test
22859 Posts |
Posted - 2007-11-08 : 01:11:58
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| "No sentiments please, no cursing or haters."I thought that said "No cursors" .. which seemed appropriate for the hardware choice for a database server!The RAID controllers on our Dell boxes have been an unmitigated disaster, but they are old enough that I expect that problem doesn't exist any more |
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Merkin
Funky Drop Bear Fearing SQL Dude!
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X002548
Not Just a Number
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Haywood
Posting Yak Master
221 Posts |
Posted - 2007-11-08 : 15:40:09
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Originally posted by KristenThe RAID controllers on our Dell boxes have been an unmitigated disaster, but they are old enough that I expect that problem doesn't exist any more
The Dell controllers that I've seen and used here at my current employer have been horrible. However, the engineering team here seems to balk at spending $1500 for a decent controller too. They don't seem to get that cost = performance in some parts of the hardware world.They fail to see the humor that I see when a box boots up and the internal controller has twice as much memory as the controller serving the DAS - 256MB to 128MB on the external.I got a brand new external 2-channel controller that has 128MB plugged into a 14 drive array and it's barely able to sustain 30MB/s while the internal controller will sustain close to 100 over five internal drives.... |
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Kristen
Test
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Posted - 2007-11-08 : 15:41:47
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| Performance apart, ours trash the database when a disk fails and is (automatically) removed from the RAID. That's not supposed to happen of course ... but ...so we might as well have no RAID at all ... |
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spirit1
Cybernetic Yak Master
11752 Posts |
Posted - 2007-11-08 : 15:49:28
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| if you go multi core go intel. amd is a bit lacking behind at the moment._______________________________________________Causing trouble since 1980blog: http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/mladenpSSMS Add-in that does a few things: www.ssmstoolspack.com |
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Michael Valentine Jones
Yak DBA Kernel (pronounced Colonel)
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Posted - 2007-11-08 : 16:06:08
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| Intel Rulz!!!AMD Suxs!!! |
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spirit1
Cybernetic Yak Master
11752 Posts |
Posted - 2007-11-08 : 16:49:38
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please refrain from this kind of suxorcism or you will be banned  _______________________________________________Causing trouble since 1980blog: http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/mladenpSSMS Add-in that does a few things: www.ssmstoolspack.com |
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blindman
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker
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Posted - 2007-11-09 : 10:44:29
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Originally posted by spirit1
please refrain from this kind of suxorcism or you will be banned
What a great word! And it gets only three google hits. Amazing!e4 d5 xd5 Nf6 |
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AMD vs Intel