I would go with the Quad AMD Opteron 852's w/8gig memory and the SCSI 10k drives.. I'd go RAID 10 on it though and use a good RAID card if that is an option. Also 15k RPM drives but doesn't have to have them.
I went from Dual Xeon Servers (2x) to one 2x Opteron 270 server with 15k SAS drives and it completely smokes using separate servers for me. I'd say that Quad Opteron 852 server should be better than the set you are currently using.
|