S650 vs S660

Rob Klebanov · ‎11-17-2008

I was just wondering what the difference was between the newer and older model of the appliance. New features?

Thanks!

Rob

jowolfer · ‎11-18-2008

Rob,

There is no software difference between the two (other then some drivers and what not). The difference is hardware.

8 CPU cores instead of 4, each CPU has a faster clock, 8GB of ram instead of 4GB. So forth.

Rob Klebanov · ‎11-19-2008

Rob, 

There is no software difference between the two (other then some drivers and what not). The difference is hardware. 

8 CPU cores instead of 4, each CPU has a faster clock, 8GB of ram instead of 4GB. So forth.

Thanks Josh!

Cheers :D

markfisher1 · ‎12-16-2008

Was this due to the new FreeBSD 7.0 release earlier in the year with better utilization for multicore processors?

jowolfer · ‎12-17-2008

The WSA is not running FreeBSD 7. I do believe there are plans to move to 7 eventually, but I don't have any additional information on if / when that would be.

Gawayne_ironport · ‎12-19-2008

Rob, 

There is no software difference between the two (other then some drivers and what not). The difference is hardware. 

8 CPU cores instead of 4, each CPU has a faster clock, 8GB of ram instead of 4GB. So forth.

Wow ... nice hardware. And to think that in my setup, we'll probably never hit the hardware limitations of the S650 ... next thing you'll add is dual Terabit NICs >_<