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1. Introduction It's true.. ! I had given my word I wouldn't do it again. I promised I would never build a server from scratch again and that I would keep buying brands (customizable ones, of course). .. but then I realized that my T410 didn't fit in the strict quietness of a living room and I needed to look for a new Firewall/router for our future appartment. (to be fair, the T410 - with a single 1200rpm 12cm Noctua fan and low-power cpus, drives and RAM - is close to be completely silent). I set out to look for something with the following requirements: - Small case with a good design to reduce the noise. - Xeon cpu and ECC RAM. - At least 16gb ECC RAM. Two servers seemed to be fit the requirements: 1) The HP miniserver Gen8 2) The Dell T30 PowerEdge. I liked the look of the HP machine but I liked the features of the T30 even more. Still, the T30 was supposedly 'silent' but its case was big and I didn't want to have another T410 in my living

Solaris 10 Bench numbers - SysWiki Some Solaris 10 Bench numbers (single-threaded) 1. Benchmark Technical Information 1.1 Introduction 1.2 nbench v2.2.3 executable information (SPARC) 1.3 nbench v2.2.3 executable information (x86) 1.4 Compiler (Lack of) Optimization Options (SPARC) 1.5 Compiler (Lack of) Optimization Options (x86) 2. Results 2.1 SunFire V215, US-IIIi 1.504GHz 2.2 SunFire E6900, US-IV+ 1.8GHz 2.3 Sun M5000, SPARC64 VI 2.15GHz 2.4 Sun M5000, SPARC64 VII 2.4GHz 2.5 Sun M5000, SPARC64 VII+ 2.66GHz 2.6 Sun T2000, Niagara T1 1.2 GHz 2.7 Sun T5120, Niagara T2 1.165 GHz 2.8 Sun T5240, Niagara T2+ 1.165 GHz 2.9 Sun/Oracle SPARC T4-4, T4 2.998GHz 2.10 Solaris10 VM on VM8 (Dell Precision T5400, 2*L5420 Xeon 2.5GHz) 2.11 HP Proliant DL580 G7, X7550 4*Xeon 2.00GHz 2.12 Sun/Oracle SPARC T5-2, T5 3.600GHz 1. Benchmark Technical Information 1.1 Introduction 'nbench' is an old b