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High performance 2U server
Review of HP ProLiant DL385 G5 Base - Third-Generation Opteron 2352 2.1 GHz by
waidaniel
Advantages: Cooling technolgy for this server is great
Disadvantages: May not sutiable for multi-application
For a small and powerful 2U rack mounted server, you can choose DL385 series server. It can support up to 64GB ram with 8 DIMMs slots. And the harddisks are all using 2.5" SAS harddisks which are more advance than the old SCSI base 3.5" harddisk. If yo ...
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11/1/2008 01:11 PM
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AMD platform blade server
Review of HP ProLiant BL685c - Second-Generation Opteron 8220 2.8 GHz by
waidaniel
Advantages: High performance
Disadvantages: Initial cost is some what expensive but worth
...make you easily distinguish between HP Proliant series server, I can help you to explain that. Those servers equipped with Intel CPU are end with 0 such as DL380, BL680 etc. And for AMD series, 5 is the last number in model. So for this BL685 server ...
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11/1/2008 12:13 PM
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ML310 G4 server - good for small business
Review of HP ProLiant ML310 G4 - Dual-Core Xeon 3050 2.13 GHz by
waidaniel
Advantages: Cheap to acquire
Disadvantages: Heavy in weight
This server look like ML150, but it features are enhanced for small business to acquire. First of all, the harddisk bays are enhanced with hot-plugged so that you can hot swap your damaged harddisk and keep the server on-line. Disadvantage of ML server ...
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11/1/2008 12:03 PM
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All-in-one Integrated server
Review of HP ProLiant ML150 G5 - Dual-Core Xeon E5205 1.86 GHz by
waidaniel
Advantages: Reliable and easy to setup
Disadvantages: Too heavy in weight
To cope with current demand in IT platform for a small business, a server should be equiped with central file sharing feature, mail service, print server, central account management etc. With ML150 G5 server, you can achieve this through the integrated w ...
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11/1/2008 11:56 AM
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BL480c blade server
Review of HP ProLiant BL480c - Quad-Core Xeon E5440 2.83 GHz by
waidaniel
Advantages: More slot for expanding
Disadvantages: The cost is high
This Blade server, when compare with the BL460, is double the length but with more slot. Concerning the physical memory, it can have 12 DIMM slots which can support up to 64GB of ram. But this server is bundled with 4 x 1GB DDR2667 rams, so you needed t ...
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10/31/2008 02:27 AM
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DL580 - Powerful and relatively low cost server
Review of HP ProLiant DL580 G2 - Xeon MP 2.7 GHz by
waidaniel
Advantages: Powerful at a lower cost
Disadvantages: Bulky
This is not the new model for DL580 series but it is a cheaper model that it can perform huge data and have a huge storage space for data to be stored. You can install and run multiple server-client based applications with the great performance on this m ...
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10/30/2008 10:04 AM
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A good performance 1U rack server
Review of HP ProLiant DL160 G5 - Quad-Core Xeon E5430 2.66 GHz by
waidaniel
Advantages: Reliable and good at speed
Disadvantages: May not satisfy resource hungry application
This server equipped with Quad-Core Xeon E5430 2.66GHz and 2GB of ram, which is suitable and profitable to put it in the data centre and used for virtual hosting or mail server running in linux platform. I just help an ISP to build up the apache22, php 5 ...
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10/30/2008 08:34 AM
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AMD DL380 server
Review of HP ProLiant DL385 G5 - Third-Generation Opteron 2352 2.1 GHz by
waidaniel
Advantages: Front panel LED information is great
Disadvantages: May be noisy if boot up the server
One of the factors that attract me to buy this server is the front LED panel, because it can shows all the hardware status inside the server. If either one or two or all of them get problem, you can easy find which parts is mal-function and call support ...
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10/30/2008 06:10 AM
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ML370 with 16 harddisk bay
Review of HP ProLiant ML370 G5 Base - Quad-Core Xeon E5440 2.83 GHz by
waidaniel
Advantages: More hard disk can be added into the server
Disadvantages: Not suitable for small office use because of the price
If you need a tower based high performance server with more harddisk bay support, then this server is surely suitable for you. It default come with 2 x 8 Hard disk bays for a total of 16 harddisk. But the default model will only has one harddisk control ...
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10/30/2008 06:03 AM
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AMD platform server
Review of HP ProLiant ML115 - Dual-Core Opteron 1210 1.8 GHz by
waidaniel
Advantages: Sufficient ram and harddisk for application
Disadvantages: Non-hot plugged hard disk
The difference between ML 110 and ML115 is that 115 is using the AMD CPU architecture. With Opteron CPU, you can used it to test for the single process operating applicaton and maximuze the throughput. And the cooling is doing better in ML115 to support ...
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10/30/2008 05:53 AM
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NICE SERVER
Review of Supermicro SuperServer 5015M-NTB - no CPU by
purple_pocha
Advantages: the speeding
Disadvantages: none
...fast Serveris what we call Supermicro SuperServer 5015M-NTB that is so nice with me.WOW!this is so fast that designed for entry-level file/web/mail servers and small business that will use in job ...
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10/30/2008 05:49 AM
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Tower based server with high performance
Review of HP ProLiant ML310 G5 - Quad-Core Xeon X3210 2.13 GHz by
waidaniel
Advantages: Stability is high
Disadvantages: Cover block the hard disk status
For SOHO office or small office, this server is the best choice for file sharing or single application used. It is also suitable for large corporate to have the drill test on data. With the Quad-Core X3210 cpu, it can perform great with any application. ...
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10/30/2008 05:42 AM
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DL320G5 application server
Review of HP ProLiant DL320 G5p - Quad-Core Xeon X3210 2.13 GHz by
waidaniel
Advantages: Easy to configure and control
Disadvantages: Should add the raid controller to support RAID
A low profiled 1U rack mounted server which is capable to serve around 40-50 users for a single application server. I have tested it with using the Dynamic CRM and it works nice. You can remote configure this server by using the iLo bundled in the serve ...
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10/30/2008 05:35 AM
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2U rack mounted file server
Review of HP ProLiant DL180 G5 - Quad-Core Xeon E5405 2 GHz by
waidaniel
Advantages: Huge storage size
Disadvantages: Maximum 16GB ram
Concerning the data in your office, when you have a lot of data spread out to different computers, this server can help you to consolidate all the data into this powerful and large storage space server. This server can support Windows Server 2003 and 200 ...
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10/30/2008 12:05 AM
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A lower-priced 1U rack mounted server
Review of HP ProLiant DL120 G5 - Pentium Dual Core E2160 1.8 GHz by
waidaniel
Advantages: Affordable price and reliable server
Disadvantages: Hard disk bay not enough, do not support SAS
When you look at the price, this server will attract you much because it is design for small business to acquire this. Around $1200 - 1300 price you can get a 1U rack mounted server. It is a starting point for your business with this 1U server. It can ...
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10/29/2008 11:49 PM
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