Frank van Bortel wrote:
> DA Morgan wrote:
>
>>Frank van Bortel wrote:
>>
>>
>>>As I happen to have a 4500 Enterprise with 6 or 8 procs and
>>>16GB memory and 3 fiber attached storage racks lying around,
>>>am would be interested in any thoughts regarding the disk
>>>layout.
>>>Time permitting, I am willing to (have) investigate(d) if
>>>different configurations do matter.
>>
>>
>>Whose storage? How many disks? What size? How will it be used?
>>My suspicion though is that you could buy new hardware for less
>>than the cost of the maintenance agreement.
>
>
> The maintenance contract was already paid for :)
> Don't know the details of the storage yet, as they were
> dismantled from one site, and shipped to another, where
> it's been gathering dust, as it "is no Windows, so we don't
> employ it".
> Just trying to recreate a (semi-personal) playground.
I'd be inclined to just suggest SAME lacking other information.
Most likely it will be as fast as glacial ice and best suited
for use as a boat anchor. But you never know.
--
Daniel A. Morgan
http://www.psoug.org
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
(replace x with u to respond)
Received on Thu Oct 06 2005 - 13:24:30 CDT
