Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 20:55:37 +0100 From: lars <lars@gmx.at> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Getting a new server Message-ID: <20060201195537.GA11816@storage.mine.nu> In-Reply-To: <43E0DD60.8060208@mac.com> References: <014001c62743$f11bf070$d51a2cd0@lisac> <43E0DD60.8060208@mac.com>
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Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> wrote: > If you're buying new hardware, pretty much anything has enough CPU to handle the > reader side; the spamfiltering and virus scanning will be more CPU-intensive. > Dual-3GHz Xeon's with 2GB of RAM? Your normal candidates, Dell, HP, IBM, all > have reasonably similar models (PowerEdge 28x0, HP DL370/380, etc) which will do just fine for this sort of thing. I'd go for an Opteron system, they have a lot more (3-4 times) I/O than Xeon systems and they're cooler. But some companies, like HP, make it hard to get an Opteron system, for reasons unclear to me.
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