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--- On Sat, 22/11/08, Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com> wrote:

> I had an old workstation with a 4 port SATA card (no raid) running
> software raid and it handily stomps this 8 disk machine into the ground.

Yeah, I think this machine will be going that route.

> We had a bunch of 18xx series servers last company I was at
> (we went
> from unix / linux to Microsoft, so ordered some 400
> machines to
> replace a dozen or so unix machines)=20

I'm not surprised. We've just had some management "inserted" to make decisi=
ons like that for us. Honestly if I get asked one more time why we're not u=
tilizing iSCSI or <insert buzzword here> more .... But that's another matte=
r.

>=20
> I think as much as anything the busses on the dells are the
> problem,
> resulting in pretty poor throughput, especially true of the
> old
> serverworks chipset machines.  Those things are pretty much
> boat
> anchors.

Funny that, possibly explains some of the useless supermicro hardware I had=
 a while back.=0A=0A=0A