Eudimorphodon
Veteran Member
On the subject of running Virtual Machines I'd have to say honestly that if you gave me the choice between "twice as many cores" and "hardware striped RAID controller" I'd totally pick the RAID controller. Yes, having tons of cores to throw at VMs is nice if your load is compute limited (which is actually pretty rare) but I can speak from experience that if you have a huge flaming 12 core desktop workstation tied to a single spinning SATA platter (@#$#ing corporate hardware purchasers) the whole computer is going to get thrown under the bus if one of your VMs starts banging on the disk hard enough. To my mind "how many cores is enough" is sort of a nonsequitor; the answer is "it totally depends what you're doing". There's plenty of circumstances in which trading off some cores for an upgrade somewhere else would give you a better experience.