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Date:      Sat, 13 May 2000 00:03:09 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        "Mitch Vincent" <mitch@venux.net>
Cc:        "Mike Smith" <msmith@freebsd.org>, "Chris Phillips" <chris@selkie.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD SMP 
Message-ID:  <200005130703.AAA01368@mass.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 12 May 2000 09:32:30 EDT." <005201bfbc16$85d08180$4100000a@venux.net> 

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> > Buy something smaller.  Benchmark your application, and determine what
> > your performance requirements are.  Make appropriate purchasing decisions
> > based on quantifiable results.
> 
> Well, we have done this, we are upgrading, not starting from scratch.
> 
> A dual system would work great, however I need a 64-Bit PCI slot to hold
> this Ultra 160 SCSI controller *and* I'd like to avoid spending $2500 in
> RDRAM to get what we already have in SDRAM :-)

So buy eg. a Supermicro PIIIDM3 or an AMI MegaDual, both of which have 
onboard U160 SCSI, both of which have 64-bit PCI, and both of which take 
much less expensive SDRAM and PIII processors.

> It's impossible, from what I've read to get exactly what I'm looking for..
> It seems I'm going to have to put up with my drives running at half speed,
> or invest a lot more money in RAM.

You're certainly not looking very hard.

-- 
\\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\  Mike Smith
\\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself,  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime.             \\  msmith@cdrom.com




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