I just spec'd a new fileserver for our office:
Dell PowerEdge 2400
Dual hot-swap power supplies
6-bay hot-swappable drives
RAID 1 & 5
512MB ECC SDRAM
My boss will sh*t when he finds out we're buying a mainframe...
:-)
-dq
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> From: Sellam Ismail
> Reply To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
> Sent: Friday, December 15, 2000 2:51 PM
> To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
> Subject: Re: The debate on what per say is a mini...
>
> On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Jim Strickland wrote:
>
> > in the world for modern mainframes - IBM still makes them - because
> > some jobs require more computing horsepower and reliability than
> > modern pcs can deliver, and hooking one clydsdale to a big job instead
> > of 400 squirrels is alot easier and cost effective to manage.
>
> I think it would be much more entertaining to watch 400 squirrels. Put my
> vote in for the squirrels :)
>
> > And as for reliability, let me draw my line in the sand and say that I
> > think using PCs for mission critical servers is not a good idea.
> > Even if you put a decent OS on them - Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, etc,
> > they're not designed or supported the way a real mini or mainframe is.
> > 'course the flip side is you can keep another machine around for a
> > spare for a reasonable cost...
>
> You can also get fairly robust PCs, with dual hot-swap power supplies,
> dual (or more) CPUs, mirrored hard drives (or RAID), error-correcting
> RAM, etc.
>
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