Re: Hardware for replacement stats server
Alex S. <[email protected]>
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Agreed with the below. Get over it, it's donated. And it will work just fine. > Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2010 02:29:21 -0400 > From: [email protected] > To: rc5-Ra3b/QYEcJ3d140v2zMXi0fjHoOT/h/[email protected] > Subject: Re: [RC5] Hardware for replacement stats server > > 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 _______________________________________________ rc5 mailing list rc5-Ra3b/QYEcJ3d140v2zMXi0fjHoOT/h/[email protected] http://lists.distributed.net/mailman/listinfo/rc5