Hi and greets from Finland!
I'm suppose to accuire new hardware, and I'm not sure what's the most efficient way to go.
I have two options at hand: the R900 or R710/R910 Poweredge.
I'm just wondering, how much does RAM speed (not the amount but speed) affect a server that should host a website? The website/s is/are quite heavy and does at least put a toll on the viewers side of performance, but since the R900 supports only 667Mhz RAM, is it really worth to at least double the budget and go for R710/910 that supports 1333Mhz RAM?
Does the RAM speed affect a server that much?
Overall the R900 would have a total of four 2,94Ghz quad-cores and around 100 gigs of RAM, 15k HDD's
The R710/R910 would have about a third less CPU performance and around 50 gigs of RAM, thou it would be 1333Mhz.
What do you folks think?