On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 netbsd@crel.us wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 09:05:35AM -0400, Christos Zoulas wrote:
>>
>> We used your donations to purchase five new machines; three of
>> those machines will be added to our nightly build infrastructure
>> and two of those machines will become anonymous cvs servers.
>>
>> These machines cost the foundation approximately $18,000 and have
>> the following specifications:
>>
>> 	Anonymous CVS servers (two machines)
>> 	2 CPU [2 cpu Opteron 244 (1.8GHz)]
>> 	8 GB Memory (8 x 1GB PC3200 DDR 400MHz ECC memory)
>> 	150 GB Disk (4 SATA 36.7GB 10K RPM drives)
>>
>> 	Build Servers (three machines)
>> 	4 CPU [2 cpu (dual core) Opteron 265 (1.8GHz)]
>> 	4 GB Memory (4 x 1GB PC3200 DDR 400MHz ECC memory)
>> 	210 GB Disk (3 SATA 74GB 10K RPM 8MB Raptor drives)
>
> Just out of curiosity, why were such small hard drives purchased?  Or
> were these older ones that were already laying around?  I was just
> wondering, because the going price for 200 GB SATA drives is only about
> $100.  Anything smaller is considerably more expensive per GB.

 	Look at the performance specs of the WD Raptor drives - they are
 	faster than the larger SATA drives
 	  http://www.nvnews.net/reviews/western_digital_raptor/index.shtml
 	or the File server mark from
 	  http://www.storagereview.com/comparison.html
 	They also support command queuing. They neatly overlap with the
 	low end SCSI drives.

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