unhappy_mage
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At work we're buying new boxes. Using Sun's educational grant program, we're planning to buy five-ish boxes. Here's the list of parts available. We were going to go with the x4150 (middle build) without qualms until I noticed today that they have x2200 m2's available for less than half of the price of the 4150s. They're fairly similar:
Basically, it's a dual power supply versus single, 4x146 versus no disks, and from a different manufacturer. So why is there a factor of two difference in cost? We don't really need the speed of the intel over the AMD, so the dual power supplies et cetera of the 4150 chassis would be the only reason to prefer it. So, what do you think? We can buy twice as many 2200s as 4150s, even considering buying disks for the 2200s, SCSI cards, and all that jazz. Which makes more sense?
for $2718 versusx4150 said:Sun Fire X4150 x64 Rack-Mount Server: Two Quad-Core Intel(R) Xeon(R) E5440 processor (2 x 6MB L2, 2.83 GHz, 1333 MHz FSB, 80W), 8GB of memory (4 x 2GB PC2-5300 667 MHz ECC fully buffered DDR2 DIMMs), 4 x 146GB 10K RPM 2.5 SAS drives, internal SAS RAID PCI-Express HBA, DVD+/-RW drive, 2 x PSU, embedded LOM, 4 x 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports, 5 x USB 2.0 ports, 3 x 8-lane PCI-Express slots, no power cord, order Geo-specific x-option. Standard Configuration. RoHS-5. FOR EDUCATION ONLY.
for $1126.x2200 m2 said:Sun Fire X2200 M2 x64 Server: 2x Quad Core AMD Opteron Model 2354 processors (2.2GHz/95W, B3), 4x 2GB registered ECC DDR2-667 memory, no hard drives, no optical drive, 1x PSU, Service Processor, 4x 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports, 6x USB 2.0 ports, 1x I/O riser card with 2x PCI-Express x8 slots, no power cords, order Geo-specific x-option. RoHS-5. Standard Configuration.
Basically, it's a dual power supply versus single, 4x146 versus no disks, and from a different manufacturer. So why is there a factor of two difference in cost? We don't really need the speed of the intel over the AMD, so the dual power supplies et cetera of the 4150 chassis would be the only reason to prefer it. So, what do you think? We can buy twice as many 2200s as 4150s, even considering buying disks for the 2200s, SCSI cards, and all that jazz. Which makes more sense?