Wednesday
Apr292009
How to choice and build perfect server
Wednesday, April 29, 2009 at 7:07PM There are a lot of questions about the server components, and how to choice and/or build perfect server with consider the power consumption. So I decide to write about this topic.
Key Points:
- What kind of components the servers needs
- The Green Computing and the Servers components.
- How much power the server consume.
- Choice the right components: Processors, HDD, RAID, Memory
- Build Server, or buy?
Reader Comments (8)
Dude try to improve your english first
1. How to "choose" ...ingles por favor :)
2. E5520 is 80W. L5520 is 60W.
3. With the release of Nehalem-EP processors, there is no more choice left. You are an idiot if you "choiced" AMD processors.
4. Best prebuilt servers right now: HP DL160G6, SunFire X2270. Best self build servers: Supermicro or Asus 1U 2S Nehalem barebones.
5. Please use a spell checker.
The last three paragraphs are copied, almost entirely verbatim, from here: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10209580-92.html
And I hate to say this, but I agree with the other comment above, the readability of this article is very poor due to grammar issues. It looks like there could be interesting data there, but it was very hard to understand what he was trying to convey.
Haytham, I highly recommend looking into hiring a copy editor.
Practise what you preach. First, there should be a comma between 'Dude' and 'try'. Secondly, it's 'English' rather than 'english'. Last of all, your sentence should be delimited with a full stop (or period).
Not everyone speaks English as a native language, and I believe the author made a pretty good attempt at it. You, on the other hand, speak English as a native language, but look at how many mistakes you made. Three mistakes in seven words; that's an error rate of over 40%. Get off your high horse and go learn what most elementary-school children are already being taught.
Those are only small minor mistakes -- I do not have to read his sentence twice to understand what he means, as opposed to this blog post.
Secondly, the guy only makes a comment, not a blog post. You would expect a lot more attention for detail from a blog post, or, in this case, expected this author to *know* he's not that good at English and have it reviewed by someone that does speak English properly. But I guess that's all part of the recent trend of this blog to favor quantity over quality.
No offense, but the articles from this guy are both amateurish and with a terribly broken English. Is there a way to filter his articles from the site feed?
WD velicoraptor HDDs are 10,000RPM not 1000...
Although I'm not a native speaker, even I found the "skills" questionable. However, that shouldn't be the focus of criticism.
What's certainly more disappointing is the overall quality of the blog post in terms of research and goals. Haytham, do you want to build an eco-friendly server, or one with the best possible disk I/O performance (I do believe that 15k RPM drives will still perform better than any 10k RPM drive), or one which allows most flexibility (custom build)... Completely unclear to me. A server, which combines all of those goals, would be perfect, but is Mission Impossible.
Also, you speak of a "perfect server", and compare its components with those found in a desktop machine. I think we all agree that there's no such thing as THE typical server, nor THE typical desktop machine.
If I want to run a cache cluster, I give a s*** about hard disk I/O. All I need is a massive amount of memory. If I want to run massive calculations, I'm better off with CPU power, and can boot from compact flash or USB, as I wont use the disk at all afterwards... You get the point.
But most of all: Does your "perfect server" scale? How?
Or why exactly did you post that here?