I have owned both of these rather chunky HP desktop computers, both of which would be certainly capable of being used as a server, they both can take 4 internal hard drives, and run dual processors. They both have 3 full length 5.25" drive bay at the front end.
But from there on in they are rather different.
XW8200 Pros / For
might have a vote for its quietness (so long as you swap out the rear fan).
wide choice of storage controllers
XW8200 Cons / Against
The old style xeons run soooooo hot, which heats the room (seriously) annoying in summer.
Limited to 2 cores all be it with HT (4 threads).
XW8400 Pros / For
Pretty quick.
Up to 8 cores.
true 64 bit
masses of SATA storage up to 8 drives using SAS controller.
processors run nice and cool
XW8400 Cons / Against
noisy
memory runs hot and will need a RAM fan (comes supplied with one of these)
Power Consumption running 2 processors, SSD and 1 TB store is around 200W.
VERDICT
XW8400 every time, unless you have some older drives you would like to use.
More details on XW8200
More details on XW8400
Links:
Environmental Permitting
Desktop Study
Sustainability Consultants
But from there on in they are rather different.
Feature | XW8200 | XW8400 |
Processors | 2 x Xeon | 2 x Xeon |
FSB | 800 | 1066 / 1333 |
Processor Tech | Hyper Threading | Cores |
Max Freq | 3.8 | 3.0 |
Max Cores | 2 (4 Threads) | 8 |
SATA Ports | 2 | 4 |
SCSI | Yes | No |
SAS | No | Yes |
IDE | Yes | Yes |
PSU | 650 W | 900 W |
PCI | 4 | 4 |
PCI x 8 | 1 | 1 |
PCI x 16 | 1 | 3 |
XW8200 Pros / For
might have a vote for its quietness (so long as you swap out the rear fan).
wide choice of storage controllers
XW8200 Cons / Against
The old style xeons run soooooo hot, which heats the room (seriously) annoying in summer.
Limited to 2 cores all be it with HT (4 threads).
XW8400 Pros / For
Pretty quick.
Up to 8 cores.
true 64 bit
masses of SATA storage up to 8 drives using SAS controller.
processors run nice and cool
XW8400 Cons / Against
noisy
memory runs hot and will need a RAM fan (comes supplied with one of these)
Power Consumption running 2 processors, SSD and 1 TB store is around 200W.
VERDICT
XW8400 every time, unless you have some older drives you would like to use.
More details on XW8200
More details on XW8400
Links:
Environmental Permitting
Desktop Study
Sustainability Consultants
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