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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