[SunRescue] recommendations: IPX or SS-2?

[Paul Khoury]

On Thu, 3 Feb 2000 12:28:07 -0800 (PST), James Lockwood wrote:

>
>My reason for not wanting to put faster disks in an IPX or SS2 is simple
>economics.  The onboard SCSI bus won't go faster than 5MB/sec no matter
>what you do, and that's pushing it.  Why shell out more bucks for a faster
>drive when it will make no difference?
>
You can always put in a faster SBus card in though, right?  Or is it even worth it?

>Then again, my main home storage is a 12-way stripe of differential
>Elite-9's.  Not cool or quiet running by any means.  That and they bring
>my UPS to its knees.

And I thought my P-Box case was bad enough - Have a BackUPS 300 powering it, and
that alone is overdoing it.

Paul