AMD Opteron Server

[Doug White]

On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Jonathan Insell wrote:

> Hey guys,
>
> We are building up a new server all the parts have been ordered ;o) here is a break down of what we ordered
>
> Western Digtial Raptor SATA 10K rpm Drives,
> Highpoint SATA Card.

I'm generally advising people to avoid SATA for the time being.  The
current crop of hardware, PARTICULARLY the Raptors, are not of production
quality.  YMMV.

I'm also not a fan of MSI boards.

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