[SunRescue] What should I look for?

[mike mangino]

I run one as my main machine and have found them to be quite quick. The comparison to the PC is actuall pretty far off base. If you get the better Ultra5, it comes with a 7200 RPM drive and 2mb of L2 cache. This alone makes it better than the average PC. It also only allows one drive per channel, so IDE is a bout as fast as scsi in this case. (You can always add a SCSI card ) My biggest concern is the lack of upgradability and scalability. To scale it at all, you need a scsi card.

I wouldn't complain about the PCI slots, even the UE450 uses PCI now.

> 
> I was at one point looking at an ultra5 but didn't get one because they
> used a IDE disc interface and where to close to a PC e.i. PCI bus etc that
> I choose not to get one.
> 
> Michael
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> On Fri, 28 May 1999, Martin Frost wrote:
> 
> > James Lockwood wrote:
> > 
> > > [Ultra 5]
> > 
> > > If you can get the current academic promo pricing, you can get
> > > a heck of a deal (360MHz/64mb/8gb for $1795).
> > 
> > This is indeed a great deal, but 64Mb is pushing it, especially
> > if the machine is used for anything other than a workstation,
> > or if you run CDE, Netscape, etc. 119Mb of swap *in use* on the
> > one I'm currently using. Swapping is extraordinarily painful on
> > those IDE disks they come with as standard.
> > 
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