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Re: [Xen-users] Large server, Xen limitations

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Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Large server, Xen limitations
From: Steve Thompson <smt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 10:00:40 -0500 (EST)
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On Fri, 2 Jan 2009, John Madden wrote:

On Thursday 01 January 2009 08:15:09 am morten@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
We're talking about a 4 x Quad core CPU server with 64 GBs of RAM and a
couple of terabytes of RAIDed SATA storage.

I'd worry about your I/O with that setup if you plan to do anything
disk-intensive.  If you're already spending on the 64GB RAM, buy SAS.

I second this recommendation. I went with SATA myself for cost reasons (I got 750 GB enterprise SATA drives for $120 each). I guess that the best I can say is that SATA gives better price/performance.

Steve

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