Re: Hardware for replacement stats server
waldo kitty <[email protected]>
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On 9/3/2010 16:35, bert wrote: > DDR2? Isn't that kind of old ram to be using? What kind of cpu's are going to be > used? I would hope for a dual quad core system for both 1U servers you are > getting and hopefully any parts that fail are easily and very quickly > replaceable and not proprietary as so have very minimum down time if at all. please forgive the "attack" but damn... i've seen way tooo many arguments in the last month about using X hardware when supposedly Y hardware is ""better""... whatever is available for the cost is the "best" hardware... i'm just very tired of seeing way too much donated equipment being put down in the last year(s) and especially when most of it out performs newer stuff in all too many ways... apologies to all but i'm serious... whining about "why isn't it the latest and greatest" really get my goat... especially since i'm sitting here with several frontend servers running 200mhz PII CPUs with only 768M of RAM and another few backend servers with maybe 1.5G or 2G of RAM with only 800Mhz to 1.2Ghz CPU... what the hell is it with everyone thinking that we/they need the latest and supposedly greatest CPU and technology when, in fact, it proves to be less speedy and accurate that the older stuffings??? it just doesn't make any sense to me with my 30+ years working with this stuff... none at all... :( :( :( _______________________________________________ rc5 mailing list rc5-Ra3b/QYEcJ3d140v2zMXi0fjHoOT/h/[email protected] http://lists.distributed.net/mailman/listinfo/rc5