[SunRescue] Re: New Netra

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scratch that! looks like their own comparison chart is faulty. sheesh! 

paul at anastrophe.com writes: 

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> The x1 has a pci slot. see the comparison chart:  
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> http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/hw/networking/netra_family.html  
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> Bjrn Ramqvist writes:  
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>> The problem seems to be that the Netra X1 lacks of PCI-slot. The others
>> has one, but (probably) because of just that, the initial price rise to
>> a whopping $2.495. Ofcourse, then you get U2W-SCSI, but...  
>> 
>> Seriously, since it has 10/100 Ethernet (dual), wouldn't this little
>> neat'o box be a great low-cost NFS/Samba server for the small LAN? I
>> can't see any reason why it would be impossible to put 30 GB drives in
>> there... what's up next? 72 GB?
>> Ofourse, heat would probably play an important role here.  
>> 
>> /Bjorn  
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>> mike dombrowski wrote:
>>> 
>>> 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
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Paul Theodoropoulos
paul at anastrophe.net
Senior Unix Systems Administrator
Syntactically Subversive Services, Inc.
http://www.anastrophe.net
Downtime Is Not An Option