Server choice.

[Paul Halliday]

Hi,

I am in the process of building a new database server and after
pricing up 2 Dell models I thought I would throw this out just to see
which choice would be better suited for FreeBSD.

The demands on the system will be mostly network -> disk I/O with a
hope of best performance on quickly servicing numerous reads; for
example when reports are generated using the data in the database.

The 2 choices (we dont have that much money and they have to be Dell)
are a poweredge 1850 and a poweredge 850.

850 specs.
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Procsesor: Pentium(Dual Core) 830 @ 3.0GHz/2X1MB Cache 800MHz FSB
Memory: 2GB DDR2, 533MHz (2x1GB) Dual ranked DIMMs
Disks: SATA

1850 specs.
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Processors: 2 @ Xeon @ 3.0GHz/2MB Cache 800MHz FSB
Memory: 2GB DDR2, 400MHz (4x512) Single ranked DIMMs
Disks: Ultra 320

The pricing is really close.

Thanks.