[rescue] SGI Origin 200 firewire upgrade - A little OT

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The o200 takes 2 cpus per tower, however you can craylink two towers
together to get 4 cpus, 12 disk bays, up to 10? XIO slots, and 14 pci
slots (assumeing dual towers, and dual gigachannel towers).  Speaking of
gigachannel towers, anyone know where i can pick one up? <grin>
	Nick

On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, Mike Meredith wrote:

> On Monday 02 July 2001 19:48, you wrote:
> > Just to keep it slightly on topic....  What sun machine would be
> > comparable with the SGI Origin 200?  I have no idea what models would
> > be comparable in speed and I/O performance.  Also expandability. 
> > Just curious.
> 
> An E250 ? Although that's hardly a fair match.
> 
> The O200 has a maximum of 2 CPU's and in the base configuration is 
> PCI-based, but can be expanded with a GIGAchannel to give XIO slots 
> which are a great deal faster than even 64-bit PCI. Also two O200's can 
> be joined together to give a 4-processor system with auto failover 
> capability.
> 
> > Is it possible to upgrade the Origin 200 with a firewire expansion
> > card?  If so what is the best expansion path available?
> 
> I don't know off the top of my head, but I wouldn't be suprised if 
> there's an option out there somewhere --- SGI is/used to be big in the 
> AV market.
> 
> > I'm also wondering what kind of HD's this can take (SCSI).  We
> > already have 10 drives hanging off the external SCSI + one internal
> > OS disk. Does the sgi need special HD's?
> 
> Standard SCSI. I think they'll be SCA types, but the difficulty you'll 
> have is finding the right drive sleds. You've got 6 hot-swap disk bays 
> in the tower itself.
> 
> > Looking for a way to get more storage space out of this thing.  It
> > kicks a** in the speed department but the drives are getting a little
> > cramped.
> 
> I'd think about replacing your external drives with a RAID box.
> 
> The Origin 200 is still a current product, so there's plenty of details 
> on www.sgi.com
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