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> -----Original Message----- > From: Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes [mailto:TB- > [log in to unmask]] 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