Posted: 1/6/2004 3:11:54 PM EDT
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I need a server for heavy database usage, and I'd like some opinions from people who arent trying to sell me something. ;-) Actually I will be storing, retrieving, and deleting say 10 gigs of tif files a day, feeding and reading 10 files a second at 50k apiece all day. Needs to be big fast, and most of all reliable. We cannot have even one file corrupted. Thoughts between a Win 2003 server and say a Dell PowerVault 770N NAS? http://www1.us.dell.com/content/pro...s=04&l=en&s=bsd This is for my office at http://www.pfainc.com/welcome.html Thanks in advance. |
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IBM RISC P Series Shamless plug since this is what i service for a living [:D] A regatta system should do you very well. The SUN killer is a serious BEAST 32 1.7ghz risc processors 512gb ram up to 32 LPARS Service processor up to 160 hot-plug PCI and PCI-X slots, hot-plug redundant power supplies and cooling fans, and Dynamic Processor Deallocation It's nice living on the bleeding edge [:D] Seriously if reliability and stability is your main concern a microsoft based machine should be off your consideration list. I have said it before and will say it again. NO DELL If you must go microsoft i'd look into some of the IBM netfinity systems. Well made, stable, and the best support and service in the industry. mike |