[CentOS] Opteron, Athlon/64, and disaster recovery

Points taken. 

Where do you recommend I go that would sell a Socket 754 system with case, PS, 
M/B, CPU, and RAM with SCSI support for $200? (or at least for cheap?) 

-Ben 

On Thursday 29 December 2005 12:38, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> Benjamin Smith <lists at benjamindsmith.com> wrote:
> > Client is cash-poor, in particular, is really feeling the
> > squeeze from the death of the dial-up industry. 
> 
> How much does it cost them per hour of downtime?
> 
> If it's enough, then spending $200 to build a backup,
> Socket-754 system of just a case, PS, mainboard, CPU and
> memory is well worth it.
> 
> > Saving $3,000 while still providing reasonable options for
> > "worst case" can provide a lot of brownie points...
> 
> Saving $2,800, $200 less, and reducing the downtime to
> minutes, instead of hours or even days in procuring new
> equipment, is a far better argument IMHO.
> 
> > in any event, I've done a fairly large number of hardware
> > swaps between P3/P4/Athlon systems, and haven't had much 
> > trouble with it.
> 
> On Linux, yes, to a point.  Especially with the new 2.6
> kernel, where the i686 kernel dynamically loads PPro/P2, P3,
> P4, Athlon/Opteron, etc... optimizations.  Otherwise, I used
> to see people pull their hair out on 2.4, when they switched
> out a disk installed on an Athlon for a P4.  Kernel panic
> (due to the Athlon kernel ;-).
> 
> > When the next Opteron server comes in, after I've set it
> up, 
> > I'll test it out on an Athlon/64 system I can borrow for a
> > bit and see what issues I run into. 
> 
> Or you could just spend $200 and give your client a sub-hour
> recovery time, instead of hours/days.
> 
> 
> 
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> Bryan J. Smith     Professional, Technical Annoyance                      
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