how would you spend $1000 on a server?
William Park
opengeometry-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org
Wed Jul 14 00:08:01 UTC 2010
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 12:21:52PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 07:56:48PM -0400, William Park wrote:
> > Good timing, since I'm also considering upgrade. Here is my list...
> >
> > - Xeon X3430 2.4GHz (similar to i5-750) $215 (infonec.ca)
> > - Intel ATX motherboard DP55WG $160 (infonec.ca)
>
> I have seen so many horror stories about intel boards that they would
> never be on my list. Intel is probably the slowest of all companies to
> fix major BIOS issues, and the one intel board I have dealt with in the
> past didn't even last 12 months before it died. So intel boards do not
> equal quality to me. Good chips, crappy board and BIOS.
I selected Intel P55 board, because they all explicitly support Xeon.
The cheapest P55 Xeon board from Asus is "WS Supercomputer" which is
$230. Hmm... $70 budget overrun!
>
> > - OCZ DDR3-1600 Intel XMP 4GB $110 (infonec.ca)
> > - Cooler Master Silent Pro M500 psu $ 60 (canadacomputers.com)
> > - Cooler Master 690 II Basic mid-tower $ 80 (canadacomputers.com)
> > - Samsung 1TB 7200rpm Spinpoint F1 (boot) $ 65 (infonec.ca)
> > - WD 2TB 5400prm Green (backup) $120 (canadacomputers.com)
> > - DVD $ 25
>
> Everything else looks perfectly nice (assuming the M500 is similar to
> the M600, which it almost certainly is). No idea about sansumg
> harddisks. I haven't seen one in about a decade. Back then it was
> pretty sad, but that was a different era.
I like Samsung, because they have "enterprise" specs (whatever that
means) at "consumer" price:
- 1 in 10^15 non-recoverable error,
- 7200 rpm,
- 1,200,000 MTBF
- good power consumption
For 2TB, though, Western Digital is way ahead of the rest.
--
William
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