[rescue] Sun 711

[Patrick Giagnocavo]

On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 08:15:19PM -0400, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 12:39:04AM +0100, Chris Byrne wrote:
> 
> > You could also do something like dual HIPPI to a mainframe or something like
> > that, but Sridhar would know more about that than I would.
> 
> Now there is an idea.  Instead of all the controller cards and drives,
> one  IBM mainframe (cost, $2k I believe Sridhar said the otherday, assuming
> that the G1s are fast enough for this), and 1 1TB array, which is 
> prepresumably $2K since Sridhar was recently saying mainframe storage is 
> $1.5k/TB.
> 
> So, that is the cost of one machine, 2 Hippi controllers, and $4k.
> 
> OK, maybe the numbers are off.  And I doubt he would do it, but it would
> be by far the coolest option.

What about the power requirements?

./patrick