Hello Don,
Thanks for your reply.
You're absolutely right; that's the IBM I'm referring to. What memory
are you using on your S2885? Please pardon my ignorance, but is it right
to assume that U320 SCSI is faster than SATA?
Regards,
_____________________________
Ricardo R Palma
SYNOPSIS SA
Tel. (+51 1) 275-7523, 275-4708
email: rrpalma@synopsis.ws
www.synopsis.ws
"Pettini, Don"
05/31/2004 02:18 PM
To
"Richard Mixon (qwest)" ,
cc
Subject
RE: [suse-amd64] IBM or Tyan
Hi Richard,
The system you are referring to is the 1u rackmount 325.
The
new system referenced by Ricardo is a new Dual Opteron desk-side unit
called the Intellistation A Pro. This station can come with a choice of
Nvidia cards(Quadro Pro 1100 or 3000), U320 SCSI, Firewire onboard, 1Gb
Ethernet onboard, DVD-R/RW/CD-R/RW.
I custom built a dual 246 using Tyan S2885, which is a
great
workstation, very fast. I have 3 PCI-x SCSI adapters on it and all work
great, though a little fussy about PCI scan order on boot. I now have
1.5TB on the system and I/O performance is exceptional as compared with
the older Xeon I had. If you are looking for a workstation, either this
board, or the IBM Intellstation A Pro are great workhorses.
Don
-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Mixon (qwest) [mailto:rnmixon@qwest.net]
Sent: Monday, May 31, 2004 3:05 PM
To: suse-amd64@suse.com
Subject: RE: [suse-amd64] IBM or Tyan
Given you are looking at a workstation, this may or may not help. We had
the same decision to make last November/December when
buying our application server (Java web apps).
We liked the IBM, but the kicker was its 1U rack case only had space for
two disk drives. It was certainly more expensive, but not
unreasonably so, given IBM's (usually) excellent support. You had to buy
an external disk array to expand storage.
The lack of drive slots caused us to go with a Tyan Thunder S2880 based
system. Although we have built many ADM/Intel boxes, the
Opteron/AMD64 is new enough that we decided to let Monarch Computing
build it for us. Their assembly/burnin charge is absolutely a
bargain - around US $65 if I remember correctly. Given the issues we had
with RAID and the SCSI drives, we are very glad we did. We
tried the more recent S2882 with buildin SCSI/RAID but it would not work
with SLES 8. All in all, Monarch's support has been
excellent.
I will probably put together our next Opteron test server. However it
will be pretty basic compared to our production servers.
Still, if you can afford the IBM, I would go for it - you know the video
and everything is integrated and works. Hope this helps.
- Richard
-----Original Message-----
From: rrpalma@synopsis.ws [mailto:rrpalma@synopsis.ws]
Sent: Monday, May 31, 2004 7:12 AM
To: suse-amd64@suse.com
Subject: [suse-amd64] IBM or Tyan
Hello List,
We need to acquire a dual Opteron workstation. Our choices are:
- Build one ourselves , based on Tyan's Thunder K8W (S2885), with dual
Opteron's 250, SATA drives, and nVidia 5950 card
- Buy an IBM Intellistation A Pro with dual Opteron's 248, Ultra320SCSI
drives, and nVidia Quadro FX 1100
Thanks for your suggestions,
_____________________________
Ricardo R Palma
SYNOPSIS SA
Tel. (+51 1) 275-7523, 275-4708
email: rrpalma@synopsis.ws
www.synopsis.ws
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