Re: [TCLUG:12912] SCSI advice

[<Nick.T.Reinking@supervalu.com>]

I disagree - I think the K6-III is a great low end server CPU.  400MHz
with 256KB of full speed L2 cache may not seem like much in the day
of hulking brutes of CPUs like the Athlon, but it still holds it's own for any
non FPU intensive stuff.  I'm guessing that a lot of the servers out there
today are not hurting for CPU, but are hurting for good I/O.  With SCSI,
all the I/O is basically on the card anyways.

I'd say save the bucks on the CPU, get some good memory, and a U2W
or a UW SCSI card and some speed IBM hard drives.

Nick Reinking





natecars@real-time.com, on 01/26/2000 05:35:07 PM
To: tclug-list@mn-linux.org @ PMDF
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Subject: Re: [TCLUG:12912] SCSI advice

On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Christopher Reid Palmer wrote:
> I always advise people, when they ask, to skimp on CPU and spend more on
> storage. If your CPU costs just ~$70 (AMD K6-3 400), you can spend some
> more on good SCSI. So, yes, it is. The Adaptec is a rippin' good card.
> 
> This is assuming you want a reliable, fast workstation or server. If you
> want a non-critical appliance (games, Web, email, Word), no sense using
> your money on SCSI.

If you want a reliable, fast, server, why are you buying a cheap cpu?
Makes no sense to me.. personally, I'd go with a cheaper (eg, $150) Mylex
controller (especially since they OFFICIALLY support Linux.. I have yet to
see an adaptec controller that lists "Linux" as a supported OS on the
box), and a better CPU.

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