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On Behalf Of Mark Mitchell
Sent: 10 January 2012 12:34
Therefore, could we have a quick
discussion on which device we wish to buy
as we should have a standardised
model across the UK for these devices.
So, to summarise:
- We like the idea of things like RAID, redundant PSUs,
and
hot-swap disks for the sake of keeping things up, and
for
the sake of peaceful contented sysadmins,
- We like 10Gbit cards,
- We don't want to gratuitously overspend on pointless
stuff.
I think the R310 and R610 specs that I posted look
reasonable,
but it would be useful to get quotes from Dell for the
R310
with a 10Gbit Ethernet card (and confirmation that it's
capable of driving one at a decent rate, which is
different
from 'it basically functions'), and also for an R610
with a
single CPU.
Is that fair, or does anyone want to suggest anything
else,
because we want to get a final answer to this quite
shortly
so people can actually go buy things.
Ewan