Re: Looking to build storage of about 3TB -- recommendations?

Hi Steve

Thanks for your input. Our latest thinking is to go with 2+ servers.
We too have found that the AMD chips are far faster than the Xeon chips
but I have some doubts about the AMD chipsets and their reliability
over long periods of time. Maybe you can comment on this. Therefore
our plan is as follows:

+ Storage server as above with the Xeon chips (we already have them
from a previous purchase).
+ 1U dual AMD Opteron 275 server with 2GB RAM, 1 sys disk

We would anticipate the ability to add more 1U servers to increase our
computing power over time. I don't think that Blade servers or fiber
is right for our applications or budgets.

Comments?

thanks
daben

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