Hey, I need your suggestion, I want to buy my own server and collocate it. Looking to buy DUAL XEON series. Could you please suggest which one is better and why , I need: Processor Motherboard memory (I think most of them are getting DDR2 , 667) Hard drives ( Looking for 15,000RPM above 500Gig) Rack mount case ( is the case make any difference) and network card ? ( does the brand make any difference or any 100Mbit is fine) ?
My suggestion use IBM X series, uses less energy and delivers more power. Try IBMx 3650, x3850M2 etc.
I would suggest using Supermicro hardware. If your not familiar building your own I would check out apaqdigital.com
+1 Seen alot of it and in over 2 years haven't seen a piece go bad. I've seen hard drives flop but not the majors pieces.
Looks like those already pre built servers, I am talking about building server by parts, buy each part separate and put it all together .... so what I need is suggestions about models of all parts (memory, hard drive and etc) which from your experience showed the best results for price/valuable
There's a website known as "cpubenchmark.net" that I've used for quite some time to compare processor speeds. The website is ran by the authors of a CPU Benchmarking program and is the only site that I've seen that has the CPU benchmarks in an easy to read list view. Once viewing their data, simply divide their rating of a processor by it's price. Example #1: An Intel Pentium 4 receives a rating of 500 (higher is always better) and the price for a Pentium 4 motherboard and CPU is $50. 500 divided by 50 is 10, which is your "cost per CPU mark", in regards to their program. Example #2: An Core 2 Quad 8300 receives a rating of 2500 (higher is always better) and the price for a Core2Quad motherboard and CPU is $200. 2500 divided by 200 is 12.5, which is your "cost per CPU mark", in regards to their program. Good luck!