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To: Paul Engel who wrote (107738)	8/20/2000 12:13:55 AM
From: Dan3	Respond to of 186894

Re: So - which one did you buy? I always spec a speed grade below the top - but since the 1.1 showed up and the 1.0 dropped in price, I've written req's for 2 servers with 1GHZ processors to a local VAR. They are identical except for the controllers: Asus A7V Motherboard 1.0 GHZ Thunderbird 512 Meg SDRAM Adaptec 39160 (on one) DPT 1564U3-2U3 (on the other - actually the replacement for this card. The part isn't formally released yet, but what they're shipping is now called the 2100S (number from memory) - it replaces a buslogic controller chip with an adaptec chip) IBM Ultrastar 36LP drives (5) - they only run 7200RPM but are the only 36 gig ultra160 drive in a 1" form factor. They run a lot cooler than half-height, 10,000 rpm drives. Chenbro Ultra cases with redundant power supplies. We don't have them yet, I would guess about two weeks - the cases are the hardest part to get. Both will run Windows 2000 server, one will run Oracle Enterprise 8.06, the other SQL Server 7, IIS, and Cold Fusion server. A pentium system would certainly be more expensive and, in my opinion, less reliable. Although the Chenbro case would stand a good chance of keeping even an Intel CPU within its temperature specs, why not use the chip that's so much more robust? (1GHZ Thunderbird, OK to 90 degrees, 1GHZ Pentium, OK to 70 degrees. I sleep better knowing I have the margin) Dan