[geeks] Ultra 20 thoughts

Bill Bradford mrbill at mrbill.net
Sat Jul 2 03:53:28 CDT 2005


On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 07:17:05PM -0400, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
>     - it has only two drive bays

Just like the Ultra 60.  I *like* the way how Sun mounts the drives 
"sideways" and still uses spud brackets.

>     - only 33MHz 32-bit PCI: it should have PCI-X

I dont know of any systems that have PCI-X *and* PCI-E

>     - only a pair of SATA ports... even on workstations I want the
>       option of at least 3 drives: 1 for OS, a pair for data.

If it only holds two drives, why have more than two SATA ports?

Bill

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bill bradford
houston, texas



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