Re: Help with hardware choices
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 15:51:29 -0600
Kent West <westk@acu.edu> wrote:
> Dale Scheetz wrote: (snippage throughout)
>
> >I have been tasked with picking the hardware, and my feeling is that
> >SPARC offers the best bang for the buck.
>
> Let me preface this by saying I have no idea what I'm talking about, but
> if it were me, I'd at least take a look at the Mac-mini (this site is
> doing web hosting on Minis -
> http://www.xrackhosting.com/machine.php?pid=dedicated_hosting) and/or
> the Xserve if you need that much horsepower.
One thing is for sure, SPARC is definitely not the best bang for
the buck.
Case in point, I just dropped $2600.00USD on a new SunBlade1500 with 1.5GHZ
cpus and 1GB of ram. I know that for around $700.00USD in parts you can put
together your own Opteron system which is twice as powerful.
The SunBlade sucks twice as much power and is twice as loud as the Opteron
as well. The SPARC machines only makes sense for people deeply interested
in Sparc already, such as myself. :-)
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