AMD or Intel?

[Palle Girgensohn]

--On fredag, september 14, 2007 18.44.35 -0400 Francisco Reyes 
<lists at stringsutils.com> wrote:

> Palle Girgensohn writes:
>
>> Sorry, my mistake, more like a percent per day  at the moment...
>
> If you have 16GB and you got 1% per day.. in less than 100 days you would
> be at 32GB.. If growth continues you will theoretically be at 60GB+
> within a year.
>     > We are planning about 16 GB RAM, actually. Maybe it is overkill?
>
> If you can afford it the more the merrier.. given that you likely will
> have this machine for a good couple of years.. as your data grow what was
> once "overkill" will become "a good amount" of memory. So I would say do
> get the 16GB if the budget allows it.

True...

>  > We will probably go for SCSI. HP DL380 with "HP SmartArray", aka ciss.
>
> How will you monitor disk failures? Does that controller can be monitored
> with FreeBSD in some way?

I believe it can, not sure how well, though. Status control can be done 
with this util:

/usr/ports/sysutils/cciss_vol_status <http://cciss.sourceforge.net/>

Thanks
Palle