[THIN] Re: IBM Blade Performance using IDE 5400 rpm drives.

  • From: Jeff Malczewski <jeff.malczewski@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 11:55:40 -0500

Cool!!  Then these might actually be worth looking into now for us (no
SAN here)...




On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 09:48:37 -0700, Joe Shonk <joe.shonk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> No, the new scsi model does not require two slots.  The old ones did...
> 
> Joe
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> Subject: [THIN] Re: IBM Blade Performance using IDE 5400 rpm drives.
> 
> If memory serves, I think to use the SCSI blades it takes up 2 blade
> slots, so you may as well just get 1U servers, since you'll only get 7
> blade servers into a 7U space, and the 1U servers are cheaper and more
> robust at that point..
> 
> If you're not happy with the 5400 RPM IDE drives and space is indeed
> an issue, I'd recommend HBA's and a SAN...
> 
> On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 10:48:56 -0500, Glenn Dona <gdona@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> >
> > Hello,
> >
> >
> >
> >               Has any body used the IBM Blades with 5400 RPM?  Will this
> > cause the bottle neck if we use it? Should we upgrade the blades to the
> new
> > IBM SCSI drives before we commit ourselves in deploying Citrix.
> >
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> > Any Replies is much appreciated.
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