[SunRescue] Re: New Netra

[Cyrus M. Reed]

Too bad it doesn't say what speeds the IDE bus will do.  It wouldn't be so
bad if it did ATA100 (or whatever the hell they're calling it this
week).  Then you could just get one of the 7200 or 10k IDE drives to swap
in there.  That wouldn't be so bad, considering the overall price.  You
could make a cool Beowulf cluster out of them too...  (ducks rotten
fruit...)

-Cyrus

On Thu, 18 Jan 2001 paul at anastrophe.com wrote:

> 
> if only it were native SCSI rather than IDE. I'm looking more at the T1 200. 
> I just can't abide by IDE in production -- nothing to do with reliability - 
> hell, I love the IBM IDE drives in my PC, it's the overall speed/throughput, 
> relatively speaking. A 5400RPM IDE drive is no match for a 10K RPM 
> Ultra2SCSI drive... 
> 
> mike dombrowski writes: 
> 
> > Just saw the new Netra, all I can say is that thing is pimp daddy :). 
> > It looks like a _great_ little server at a fantastic price. How much 
> > were the previous Sun 1u boxes? It's not the fastest thing but if you 
> > wanna colo a sun for light duty web serving this is the way to do it. 
> > Who cares about the big Starfire and it's domanins, just buy racks of 
> > these. And the pci slot is nice. What do you guys think about it? I'm 
> > looking forward to buying one in about 4 years when they're $30 :). 
> > 
> > Mike