[geeks] RAID levels

Joshua Fielden geeks at sunhelp.org
Mon Nov 19 01:10:44 CST 2001


72-pin, True Parity SIMMS.

Prolly invalidates your warranty, caveat emptor, I didn't put the gun to your head that made you do it, etc, etc. ;)

Take the smaller SIMMS out (it's obvious which they are), that's the 16MB OS memory. Move the larger SIMMS to their slot because, well, why not? Install 2x32MB TP SIMMS, enjoy 40% better performance on most RAID 5 writes. (benchmarked, YMMV)

We're doing that with a bunch of A-1's we got from the Webvan auction in a couple weeks, in fact.

JF

Mike Ekholm quoth, on Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 11:10:26PM -0600:
> 
> Anyone know if the A1000 uses just std SIMMS? I would like to
> just find a pair of non-sun barcode simms for a A1000 I am getting,
> if I could.
> 
> I would like to not need to buy the $500 sun memory, or the $250 that
> memoryx has, if I can just get some kingston memory from the cheepest
> place i can find it or something.



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