[ale] New Hardware

[Jonathan Glass]

> Robert L. Harris wrote:
>>
>> Any recomendations on actual hardware though?  P4 or should I go
>> Xeon, is SATA worth it?  etc.
>
> I'd save my bucks, and go with an Athlon.  Can't help you with the SATA
> stuff, I've not played with it.  Monarch does offer SATA Linux systems,
> so I'm sure it works fine.
>
> --
> Until later, Geoffrey                     Registered Linux User #108567
> Building secure systems in spite of Microsoft

Only recommendation on SATA is make sure you get a 3Ware controller, and
if you can afford it, go RAID 1.  The 3Ware drivers are in the kernel, and
work much better than Promise.  To me it is worth it.

I prefer Xeon processors, but then again I work in compute-intense
environment.  They seem to outperform the P4s for some reason (haven't
really delved into the voodoo of the hardware specs to find out
why...don't really care).

HTH
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