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Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 13:59:05 -0700
From: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>
Organization: Command Prompt, Inc.
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To: Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org>
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Subject: Re: Optimizing disk throughput on quad Opteron
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Vivek Khera wrote:
> 
> On Oct 21, 2006, at 11:43 AM, John Philips wrote:
> 
>> Can you guys see any glaring bottlenecks in my layout?
>>  Any other suggestions to offer (throw in more
>> controllers, different RAID layout, etc.)?  Our budget
>> limit is $50k.
> 
> If I had $50k budget, I'd be buying the SunFire X4500 and running
> Solaris + ZFS on it.  However, you're limited to 2 dual core Opterons,
> it seems.

The HP 585 will give you quad dual core :)

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake


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