[SunRescue] Re: New SunBlade

[Chris Byrne]

Two things, expansion, and form factor

I'll (excuse the horrid pun) expand here. The SB100 is an extremely good
value, however it offers very little room for expansion. There are only two
drive bays, and it only offers PCI based graphics which would take up one of
its three slots. Also from what I have seen the pci slots are fairly
cramped.

The U10 on the other hand has four drive bays (trust me, a 3-1/2" drive fits
in the pcmcia card slot), offers UPA graphics, and there's plenty of room
for cards, with FOUR slots, but the RAM options are a lot less flexible, and
a lot more expensive, and it doesn't have USB.

Oh and there is the secondary issue of form factor. Desktop style machines
take more desk real estate, which for some sites may be a big issue. Also
desktop form factor machines can have more heat buildup issues since the
components arejust a bit closer together. In particular the Ultra 5 has had
problems with the heat issue, even more so if you load the thing up with
cards, and stick high performance drives in.

So really it comes down to wherther the SB100 will meet your needs without
expansion, or if you will need to make upgrades other than RAM or hard
drives. If you need the extra expansion get the U10, otherwise the SB100 is
great.

Now what I really want to see is an SB100-like replacement for the U10 (only
with more cache)

Chris Byrne
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*I wish there was more room for cables though. I think Sun designed them to
make it intentionally difficult to connect drives to a scsi card by making
cable routing hell


-----Original Message-----
From: rescue-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:rescue-admin at sunhelp.org]On
Behalf Of Paul Nguyen
Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2001 20:55
To: rescue at sunhelp.org
Subject: [SunRescue] Re: New SunBlade


I am looking at picking up additional sun desktop machines and debating
between the Ultra 10 and the new sunblade.  The U10 is more expensive but we
are used to maintaining them.  Does any one have any input of pros and cons
between the 2 machines?.

Thanks
Paul
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