Re: Machine selection advice
- From: Rich Teer <rich.teer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 16:59:35 GMT
On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Stan Brown wrote:
> I'm preparing to buy a Sun machine for service as an Amanda backup server.
> For those of you unfamiliar with this service, the 2 most important facets
> (for us) are High I/O throughput, and high CPU processing power (as we plan
> to do compression on the server).
>
> I'll be using an Ultrium tape drive (SCSI) with this.
>
> I'm looking at 2 different Sun models:
>
> a W2100Z, and a Ultra 40. The W2100Z is a SCSI machine, and I would add a
One question comes immediately to mind: why are you looking at using workstations
as servers? I'd consider the X2100 or the X4100 if I were you.
Also, if you want to consider used HW, your options increase quite a bit.
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