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Re: Help About Squeeze



Am 12.05.2011 11:20, schrieb Stan Hoeppner:
> On 5/12/2011 3:29 AM, Markus Neviadomski wrote:
>
>> And the costs of hardware could be igored, if you have to recover broken
>> or lost data w/o raid or backup!
>
> This typically holds true in the US where the total cost of labor is
> far greater than hardware.  This is definitely not the case in
> 'developing' countries, where the acquisition cost of a single tier 1
> server may very well be greater than an SA's yearly salary.
>
I know about that. But lost data couldnt be recovered, only rewritten.
There admin costs will get zero, if 200 users has to be rewrite all
there documents. The admin will need a grave!

> ~$20k can buy you a 2 socket 24 core AMD Magny Cours HP server with
> 32GB RAM, quad GbE ports, a 10 GbE PCIe x4/x8 NIC, LSI's top of the
> line PCIe x8 RAID HBA with 1GB BBWC and 2 SFF8088 SAS ports, two LSI
> 24 drive 2.5" chainable SAS enclosures w/ internal expanders and 48
> SAS drives of 300GB capacity and 15k spindle speed.

You are right...but, read my first post. I wrote about 4-6 cores. This
is a typical sandy bridge system with core i7. No real server hardware,
but fast enough for the OP, when his Sempron is working until today!
16GB Ram are possible and cheap enough for development countrys servers.

>
> The cost of this system, in many parts of the world, may be double (or
> more) the yearly salary of the SA managing it.  In the US this
> system's price tag will equal about 1/4 to 1/6th the SA's total yearly
> compensation package, depending on the SA's state/city.
>


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