Brion Vibber wrote:
(eg, the Altus 130 or 140, with the max of 4 gig ram)
Altus 130 is Dual Channel ATA-100, (2 drive bays)
Altus 140 is U160 SCSI (3 drive bays)
I have *always* used SCSI for servers, but is this just superstition?
I'm narrowing it down to these three:
Altus 130
Dual Athlon 2800+, 4 gig DDR, 2 80 gig EIDE drives
$3006
Altus 140
Dual Athlon 2800+, 4 gig DDR, 2 36 gig SCSI drives
$3590
Altus 1000
Dual Opteron 240 (sweet!), 4 gig DDR, 2 80 gig EIDE drives
$3526
As you can see, within the budget range of potential tradeoffs, it
looks like SCSI costs $500 more for half the disk space.