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Originally Posted by TidalWave
to many of these posters know nothing about the new CPU's. the older Xeons (unless they are the newer Woodcrest or Clovertown dual/quad cores respectively) are all ass compared to the new Core2Duo CPU's.
All older Xeons vs new Core2Duo = core2duo ownage
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Even though Server B is faster... a 10k raptor drive is still a desktop Sata drive and will not have the durability the scsi drives will.
scsi 15k still will do more iops than a 10k raptor drive.
your faster CPU will do you no good if it has to wait on disk IO, most common bottle neck today is due to high loads caused by disk waiting.
Trying to say a core2duo with slower drives will out perform a machine with faster drives on a strict IO based machine is a rather dumb suggestion. Sure you can upgrade the c2d processor in life but it still does you no good if your drives can't keep up. Unless of course you load up your machine with 8gb of ram then life will be fine.