[SunRescue] Re: New Netra

[Björn Ramqvist]

Yeah... Someone must have had a little bit too much Java that morning.
=)
And how appropriate is numbers like "Cache: ??", "Internal disk storage:
??". Heh...

Looking at the White Paper it could be somewhat possible to crank in a
PCI-slot there somewhere to the left of the board (faceplate against
you).

/Bjorn

paul at anastrophe.com wrote:
> 
> scratch that! looks like their own comparison chart is faulty. sheesh!
> 
> paul at anastrophe.com writes:
> 
> >
> > The x1 has a pci slot. see the comparison chart:
> >
> > http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/hw/networking/netra_family.html
> >
> >
> > Bjrn Ramqvist writes:
> >
> >> 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
> >>
> >> 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
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