[rescue] Sun 711

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 05:06:54PM -0500, Shawn Wallbridge wrote:
> Just wondering if the Sun 711 can take Ultra-160 SCSI drives and operate at
> U160 speeds.
> 
> I need to figure out how to get 300MB/s (uncompressed 2K video) sustained on
> a machine. I am thinking two U160 PCI (64/66) RAID controllers with two
> 711's filled with 36GB 15k rpm Cheetah's.

An Onyx with extra IO4s?  If you manage to get over 15 FW-SCSI2 chanels, then
there is your 300M/s.  Not sure if that is possible in a deskside though,
and if not that would defeat any possible cost savings.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd