On Thu, 31 May 2001, Maurice Volaski wrote:
> The endpoint is a highly stable box to serve files (appleshare, smb
> and maybe nfs) from a hardware raid (up to 2TB).
> If one had a choice between a reasonably equipped PC with the latest
> Linux and XFS versus a new SGI box (similarly configured) running the
> latest IRIX (which has XFS), which one would you choose? Would you
> change your answer in six months?
It depends on how much demand you put on that server. You can get a
machine from SGI that can do amazing amount of processing and file serving
- far beyond that of x86 hardware. But if you only have 20-80 (or so -
I'm just guessing at numbers here) people use x86 hardware and save some
cash. You can even get it from SGI who understands XFS. That might be a
plus if anything goes wrong. A new Itanium machine from SGI might be just
what you are looking for. On the other hand VA linux has some cool stuff
that allows you to increase your hardware modularly as your needs increase
(but no XFS from VA - have to do it yourself).
Of course you could just get a new Origin....
James Rich
james.rich@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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