A few questions I can't find in archive...

[Ugo Bellavance]

>-----Message d'origine-----
>De : Nick Nelson [mailto:nnelson at 1SEO.NET]
>Envoyé : 27 février, 2004 16:25
>À : MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Objet : Re: A few questions I can't find in archive...
>
>
>Dan Hollis wrote:
>
>>On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, Nick Nelson wrote:
>>
>>
>>>My first question is, anyone have any input on MS in a 64bit 
>enviorment?
>>>  I'll probably end up running it in 32bit anyhow, but
>>>advantages/disadvantages?
>>>
>>>
>>
>>I cant think of any advantages to running it 64bit, it would likely be
>>slower.
>>
>>-Dan
>>
>>
>
>In that case, and with the talk of SATA drives possibly not doing as
>well, I'll probably just skip back to Dual Xeons with SCSI drives.  The
>cost is less on the Dual Xeons as well, which is a good thing 
>of course.

Xeons might be cheaper, but Opterons are better performer, 

See here. http://www.anandtech.com/IT/showdoc.html?i=1935&p=1

Sometimes very surprising.

>
>Is there a safe amount to assume each box can push optimized well on
>Dual Xeons, SCSI drives and 2Gig of RAM?
>
>nick
>