Hi all. Just to get a feel for the software appliance side of things, I dug out one of our retired Dell PowerEdge 2950s and installed the latest 9.x ISO image on it. It has 16GB of RAM, 4 Gigabit ports, and dual Clovertown Xeons of an older vintage. After choosing a 64-bit install, I was pleasantly surprised that it found all of the hardware, including the onboard RAID controller.
That led me out of curiosity to price a pair of new Dell R420 1U servers just to see what it would cost if I wanted to replace our ASG-425s, and I was again pleasantly surprised that both of them with 3 years of HW coverage came to about $7400.
If I got them with dual Sandy Bridge Xeons, 16GB RAM, and dual 600GB 10K drives, where should that fall in performance, relative to the UTM 425, 525, and 625?
TIA,
Brian
That led me out of curiosity to price a pair of new Dell R420 1U servers just to see what it would cost if I wanted to replace our ASG-425s, and I was again pleasantly surprised that both of them with 3 years of HW coverage came to about $7400.
If I got them with dual Sandy Bridge Xeons, 16GB RAM, and dual 600GB 10K drives, where should that fall in performance, relative to the UTM 425, 525, and 625?
TIA,
Brian