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So it increases the price +a lot. + +><i> +</I>><i> > - iDRAC7 Express (not on the previous proposal) +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Nice +</I>><i> +</I>><i> > - Dual Hot Plug Power Supplies 350W (not on the previous proposal) +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Nice +</I>><i> +</I>><i> > Cost: ~2800 € without taxes* +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> > * I asked a reduction to Dell. Stay tuned! +</I>><i> > So, WDYT about this NEW proposal? +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> +</I>><i> I'd rather take the old one then, add 2x300GB in raid1 and 2x300 in +</I>><i> raid0, and add 32GB ram to that one... +</I> +The old one (R210 II) with 4*300GB and 32GB of ram costs 3 695 euros +(without tax). + +It's 420 euros for each 300GB disk, so we have 1680 euros of disks. +600 GB disks are at 510 euros each. Unfortunatly 300GB disks are not a +lot cheaper than 600GB ones. + +Switching from 16GB (4*4GB) to 32GB (4*8GB) of ram adds 1223 euros. + +On R320, 16GB RDIMM costs 295 euros. Maybe if we have 32GB of ram, we +can use 16GB for tmpfs to store temporary build files, and it can +compensate not having SAS disks ? Or 48 or 64GB ? + +><i> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Or as a different proposal... +</I>><i> +</I>><i> What if we make ecosse our new rabbit ? +</I>><i> +</I>><i> It has dual Xeon 5000 series Quad core running at 2.66 / core +</I>><i> (so 8 real cores available) +</I>><i> +</I>><i> It currently has 8GB of RAM +</I>><i> +</I>><i> We would need to buy: +</I>><i> - a new disk controller (as the current integrated ESB2 one sucks) +</I>><i> - 2 >= 300GB SATA disks for system, frozen repo and readybuilt isos +</I>><i> - 1 ~250GB SATA SSD for iso builds +</I>><i> - maybe some more RAM +</I>><i> +</I>><i> The cash saved could be used instead for the replacement >= jonund-class +</I>><i> buildhost. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Would that work ? +</I> +Problem with this solution is that bios on ecosse seems to be buggy, so +we are not sure that adding a new disk controller will work. So spending +some money to buy a good disk controller can be risky. + +</PRE> + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="004550.html">[Mageia-sysadm] [council] Re: A new server to replace rabbit.mageia.org +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="004535.html">[Mageia-sysadm] Replacing ecosse +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#4552">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#4552">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#4552">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#4552">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-sysadm">More information about the Mageia-sysadm +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |