On Wed, 10 Sep 1997, Sean W. O'Malley wrote:
| |I seemed to have unintentionally opened a can of worms here in |trying to stop people from trying to upgrade to higher clock |speed pentiums. The offcially netapp policy is: | | 1) we don't recommend it as it doesn't provide any performance gain | 2) we don't support such modifications - you may be voiding their | warranty | 3) we discourage this sort of tinkering - the previous note was just | mentioning what I saw in the lab, and wasn't encouraging this | sort of activity. | 4) No such beast has ever gone through QA and you DON'T want to run | a configuation with a non-standard nor QA'ed mother board. | |The offical Sean O'Malley policy is buy a 520...I spent a good three or |four months trying to make the pentium boxes go faster and if I had |suceeded there would have been an F340. Messing around with the pentium |boxes is a waste of time. If you have a real performance problem |with any of the pentium based machine the 520 is the answer. Or get |another box and split the load. |
good advice Sean. Did you testing engineers ever try Pentium PROs? We have found on our NT servers that PPROs have a _huge_ IO advantage over Pentiums because of the L2 cache running at cpu clock. The memory bus of a PPRO is still 64bits though. What is the memory bus on the Alpha based Netapps? We just submitted a PO for a F630 and are curious as to what its memory bus is.
Jonah
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