Rahul Nabar wrote:
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Gerry Creager wrote:
silicon, if I recall correctly. I've several S50s in my data center, hammer
the fool out of them, and am happy.
Thanks Gerry! I have been getting many great reviews on Force10. Maybe
I will seriously consider them.
P
Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 at 12:01pm, Robert G. Brown wrote
Unless/until Xen or KVM or something else comes out with a similarly
powerful and tricked out console and ease of use and (still, overall)
reliability, VMware will be on my personal laptops for the rest of time.
It
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 1:36 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote:
> If it has to be cheap I'd take e.g. a Sun with 8x 2.5" SATA drives,
> using 300 GByte WD VelociRaptors as a stripe over mirrors, or 15
> krpm SAS drives.
>
> Right now you can populate a SuperMicro chassis with 16x SATA 3.5"
> achieving e.g. a
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 8:57 PM, Mark Hahn wrote:
> if you can't saturate gigabit with very modest raids,
> you're doing something wrong. a single ultra-cheap disk
> these days (seagate 7200.12 500G, $60 or so) will hit close to 135 MB/s on
> outer tracks and average > 105 over
> the whole disk.
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Mark Hahn wrote:
>> the best answer I get is "Cisco is the market leader in switches".
>> They won't show me which of their parameters make a Cisco switch
>> better than the rest.
>
> well, one parameter is "market share". another is "brand".
> cisco owners will a
the best answer I get is "Cisco is the market leader in switches".
They won't show me which of their parameters make a Cisco switch
better than the rest.
well, one parameter is "market share". another is "brand".
cisco owners will also often advocate benchmarking based on the
"comfort-level" p
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Gerry Creager wrote:
> silicon, if I recall correctly. I've several S50s in my data center, hammer
> the fool out of them, and am happy.
Thanks Gerry! I have been getting many great reviews on Force10. Maybe
I will seriously consider them.
>Prior to them, we us
