Lamar Owen wrote:
Now, if you're going to compare the E4500 to Intel hardware, you need to look at high-end Proliants and PowerEdges of that time period, not modern Dell PowerEdges. Hmmm, there weren't any comparable Intel servers in that time period (with the exception of Sequent's Dynix stuff that ran dozens of 66Hz 486's and cost a mint).
Actually E4500's are not bad machines. Yes, they are slow compared to PeeCee's/servers these days, but they are still darn reliable. I had a couple of E4500's with 8x400 Mhz US-II ( 8 MB Cache), 8 GB RAM connected to a A5100. They ran reliably and flawlessly (except for replacing the battery on A5100). They have a lot of resilience to load. We've had load averages of up to 300-350 on the machine and it didn't break a sweat. I've had many other machine crumble to this heavy load.
Now only if they were more energy friendly!
Warm Regards,
-Bruno