[rescue] sm?1 vs sm?1-2

Steve Sandau ssandau at bath.tmac.com
Tue Apr 30 10:28:35 CDT 2002


> > No slouch, but go for an SM71 instead if you can.  The speed increase is
> > significantly greater than the increase from SM51->SM61.
> 
> I got out bid while I was in class.  I just want a couple of CPUs for my
> 4/600s.  Perhaps something like one fast single processor one, and a slower
> quad setup, and see which is best for software raid5.  If that machine does
> nothing other than serve files to a network over nfs, smb, and whatever apple
> uses, then surely it shouldn't take much CPU power to saturate a pair of
> 100mbit connections from a raid5 file system.  Isn't that what Auspex did?

See, that's what you get for going to class. ;)

Steve



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