New servers! :)

[LiroyvH]

Hello faithful SMF users!


Simple Machines LLC is happy to announce that we just purchased and installed 2 brand new servers!
These 2 servers will help keep the SMF site fast and provide more room to grow.  It will also serve the many SMF users that come here on a daily basis. These servers are the replacements for 2 older servers which we had outgrown.

These new servers are of the following specifications:

Server 1
HP Compaq ProLiant DL360 G5
Dual Intel Xeon QuadCore 2,33Ghz (12MB Cache)
8GB DDR2 SDRAM
6x 146GB 10k SAS hard drives

Server 2
HP Compaq ProLiant DL360 G5
Dual Intel Xeon QuadCore 2,33Ghz (12MB Cache)
8GB DDR2 SDRAM
2x 146GB 10k SAS hard drives

We would like to thank all charter members and users that made a donation to make this possible.
Without your generosity, this would not have been possible.

Thank you for using our great software and helping to make SMF even better!

[Costa]

Thank you all!

I want one quadcore too

[islam2hamy]

good work SMF.

[Dzonny]

great, hope that this will improve our community...

[Nibogo]

Sweet!

[Hell Raiser]

Yippe!! ................

Nice Work 

[sAce]

ohh yeah, more speed !!!

[Eliana Tamerin]

Server 1
HP Compaq ProLiant DL360 G5
Dual Intel Xeon QuadCore 2,33Ghz (12MB Cache)
8GB DDR2 SDRAM
6x 146GB 10k SAS hard drives

Server 2
HP Compaq ProLiant DL360 G5
Dual Intel Xeon QuadCore 2,33Ghz (12MB Cache)
8GB DDR2 SDRAM
2x 146GB 10k SAS hard drives

I don't think that's enough.

[karlbenson]

Indeed it doesn't look like much.

I've got just as much GB's at home.

[JBlaze]

Nice job

[Dragooon]

Are you guys running the multiple HDDs on RAID? But the specs look sweet , Dual Intel Xeon..man...*Starts drooling*.

[Forbs]

good work SMF.

[Arantor]

Nice specs! Wouldn't mind a couple of those for my study

[Something like that]

Are you guys running the multiple HDDs on RAID? But the specs look sweet , Dual Intel Xeon..man...*Starts drooling*.

Almost certainly RAID 10 on the first machine and RAID 1 on the second. That would be the standard setup for disks in database machines.

[Dragooon]

Are you guys running the multiple HDDs on RAID? But the specs look sweet , Dual Intel Xeon..man...*Starts drooling*.

Almost certainly RAID 10 on the first machine and RAID 1 on the second. That would be the standard setup for disks in database machines.

Yeah, otherwise I don't see the point of having multiple HDDs against one big HDD unless the cost is that much different(Which I very much doubt).

EDIT : I just realized these are 10k SAS drives, hm then that maybe a different story.

[Something like that]

Are you guys running the multiple HDDs on RAID? But the specs look sweet , Dual Intel Xeon..man...*Starts drooling*.

Almost certainly RAID 10 on the first machine and RAID 1 on the second. That would be the standard setup for disks in database machines.

Yeah, otherwise I don't see the point of having multiple HDDs against one big HDD unless the cost is that much different(Which I very much doubt).

EDIT : I just realized these are 10k SAS drives, hm then that maybe a different story.

In a database machine, the 33% improvement in latency over 7.2k drives is totally worth the money.

[TwitchisMental]

Nice specs! Wouldn't mind a couple of those for my study

HAHAHAHA Yeah what he said.

Good work though .

[Powerbob]

cool

[kroxa]

good work SMF. 

[KensonPlays]

GO SMF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!