An example from life:
Server 1C, SQL, 300 users. 2U / 2 x Intel Xeon 4216 / Supermicro X11DPI-N / 320GB / RAID / three mirrors on SATA SSD / mirror HDD
they say " slows down "
There is no need to dig deep here, why slows down, put "Ghilov's test", monitor disk queues, analyze storage roles and data distribution.
There are only two questions: to the buyer himself (saw eyes what did you buy) and to the seller (did the person who sold this server not know that 1C and SQL critical to the clock frequency and cannot offer low-frequency processors Xeon Silver?)
Apparently, the buyer thought that the server manufacturer Surepmicro can't be bad. And the seller did not care about the burden of the buyer, he offered what fit into the budget.
Our company's engineers always ask customers what the server is for, what the ultimate goal is, for what applications and workloads - even if they don't ask for your advice. Inquiry is the customer's insurance against mistakes and an attempt to reach a more appropriate solution, with benefits for both, the customer and the supplier.
PS In such cases, the best solution is high-frequency AMD EPYC or Intel Xeon Gold from 32 cores of 3 GHz with disk subsystem on NVMe . Without hardware RAID . The brand can be any.
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