okay so lineus there's desktop computers and then there's like server computers
but how different are they exactly well
any computer actually has the same basic components processor working memory
storage Etc and you may be surprised to hear that fundamentally they're not that
different with some of those components even coming off the same assembly line
but that doesn't mean that you can just grab off-the-shelf desktop components
and like fashion yourself a server I mean sure this core 7 runs at 3.8 GHz
and this Zeon runs at 3.8 GHz but it costs way more well hold on in just a
second hold off on the core i7 sometimes
there's more to it than gigahertz and gigabytes and all those gigas so let's
get this list of differences kicked off number one we just discovered server
gear is much more expensive for specifications that often appear similar
or even worse at times but why you get
intercompatibility with other server grade Hardware things like EC C and
registered RAM support a bullet point that's hidden halfway down the product
page for that CPU from before now while using memory that is slightly more
resistant to errors might not seem like a big deal to a typical desktop User
it's absolutely critical for a server in a desktop environment one little tiny
RAM error caused by like cosmic rays might cause Little Sally the cute
picture she made in Ms paint but in a server it could result in the loss of a
patient's medical records or who knows what else not to mention speaking of
intercompatibility that server memory is available in much higher capacities so
you got to have support for that we find the next difference in the little
details the characteristics of a product that don't always find their way onto a
spec sheet for example server and workstation grade Hardware uses higher
quality components and is subjected to much more rigorous quality testing and
validation they not only are made to handle heavier Duty Cycles but also live
longer overall while doing it now on to
features silent operation a bunch of usb3 ports and like overclocking
settings out the Wazoo are not the kinds of things that server clients will want
to spend money on which doesn't mean that they're cheap skates they'll pay
big money for stuff like fancy networking capabilities Remote
Management interfaces and Hardware redundancy so that the machine won't
experience any downtime even in the event of a hardware failure on something
like a power supply and it's great that they buy this stuff because it drives
the costs down for us desktop folks in the future so my next Point actually
ties at least partially into most of the others server Hardware is optimized for
different workloads for example on the desktop our applications aren't heavily
multi-threaded so higher frequency processors with fewer cores work really
well but a server might run an operating system and software that takes much
better advantage of multiple processing cores so we might get much better
results with a lower clocked server CPU that has more processing cores or even
even with multiple CPUs to further spread up the workload and then finally
there are the optimizations made for the environment in which a server will
operate for example a consumer and Enterprise grade hard drive might share
much of the same technology it's a bit of a recurring theme here but a server
hard drive is much more resistant to wear and tear from vibration something
that doesn't matter for a drive sitting in a desktop by itself but that is
critical for a drive that's surrounded on all sides by other drives spinning
and clicking away doing their own work and there are so many little things like
this a server won't compromise on power consumption or increase size
unnecessarily to squeeze a little bit more performance out of the hardware like a gaming rig would it's all about
how much computing power can fit in as small a space as possible while
consuming as little power as possible the general consumer has different
priorities in a big tower that consumes a couple more watts doesn't really
matter when you got one family PC in the house or even two or three or four but
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