From: Doug Hubbard (doug@trackmaster.com)
Date: Thu Dec 27 2007 - 11:38:06 EST
Folks,
I am looking for some advice on an upcoming purchase.
I am looking at a pair of either Sun Fire 440s or Sun Fire 480s to run
Sybase servers on (replacing an E5000 and E4500 which are EOL)
My initial thought was the 440 with 2 1.2 Ghz CPUs and 16GB of Ram, but
one of my vendors is telling me the costs are close between the two
systems now.
What are the advantages of the 480 over the 440 (other than the 8MB of
cache vs 1 on the CPU) and will I see a difference running a DB server?
Either system will be attached to a T3 disk array for the drive space
carrying the DBMS (internal drives for Master and the OS).
One reason I am still debating whether to go with the 4800 is power and
cooling.
Based on the specs I see from sun, the 440s draw about 1/2 the juice
(which translates to lower cooling etc).
I have done some google searching and sent the same questions off to my
vendors, but I would really like some real world feedback on the systems
in question.
Any feedback would be appreciated. (and no, t2000s aren't in the budget
numbers :-)).
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