They are looking at the enterprise market almost exclusively I dont expect to see much more then 1 or 2 high performance magnetic drives on the shelf in another year. you can have a Big 7200 with lots of cache or a huge 7200 with lots of cache. nas drives, low power and usb drives are all that...
SuperMicro yuck.
I'm just finishing a large cluster of 512 Dell R630s with E2699s ( cache was the top goal ). I would say go build 2 the ram is already cheaper for larger sizes and will only get better. The lower power will also be nice over the life of the servers.
You don't need the...