From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 20 17:49:53 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 494EC16A400 for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 17:49:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from paul.halliday@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0102.google.com (nz-out-0102.google.com [64.233.162.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D99AD43D48 for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 17:49:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from paul.halliday@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id 13so210950nzp for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 10:49:52 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=pGwTZ8xWqB45FImLaFD3ifQuvCbV0wpqyZjtJk5NhkqRGhLPPuRBLz89QTaMRcDfBH9GarGKE0uRFNRYCz01zx5pPyV8fDZ06Nixfj6afFsbQ0EtdzZAftf0rHEyRSEdf9QmPGhNrO4iXspxHZDAwzS5dDqV/bf+arWMOOXL1nU= Received: by 10.65.75.2 with SMTP id c2mr522924qbl; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 10:49:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.65.151.18 with HTTP; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 10:49:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <2dab70a30604201049i41e409e1y8924383843c95980@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 14:49:51 -0300 From: "Paul Halliday" To: hackers@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Cc: Subject: Server choice. X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 17:49:53 -0000 Hi, I am in the process of building a new database server and after pricing up 2 Dell models I thought I would throw this out just to see which choice would be better suited for FreeBSD. The demands on the system will be mostly network -> disk I/O with a hope of best performance on quickly servicing numerous reads; for example when reports are generated using the data in the database. The 2 choices (we dont have that much money and they have to be Dell) are a poweredge 1850 and a poweredge 850. 850 specs. ---------------- Procsesor: Pentium(Dual Core) 830 @ 3.0GHz/2X1MB Cache 800MHz FSB Memory: 2GB DDR2, 533MHz (2x1GB) Dual ranked DIMMs Disks: SATA 1850 specs. ------------------ Processors: 2 @ Xeon @ 3.0GHz/2MB Cache 800MHz FSB Memory: 2GB DDR2, 400MHz (4x512) Single ranked DIMMs Disks: Ultra 320 The pricing is really close. Thanks.