Junaili,
I'd suggest you don't buy a dell. The aren't particularly good performers.
Dave
Junaili Lie wrote:
>Hi guys,
>We are in the process of buying a new dell server.
>Here is what we need to be able to do:
>- we need to be able to do queries on tables that has 10-20 millions
>of records (around 40-60 bytes each row) in less than 5-7 seconds.
>We also need the hardware to be able to handle up to 50 millions
>records on a few tables (5 tables in the DB).
>
>Here is what we are thinking:
>- Dual Xeon 2.8 Ghz
>- 4GB DDR2 400 Mhz Dual Ranked DIMMS (is dual ranked or single ranked
>makes any differences in terms of performance?). Do you guys think 4GB
>is reasonably enough?
>- 73 GB 15k RPM Ultra 320 SCSI Hard Drive
>- Dual on-board NICS (is this enough, or Gigabit network adapter will help?)
>
>Any input or suggestions is greatly appreciated.
>Thank you,
>
>
>Jun
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