[rescue] Ultra 5/10/30 value/comments

[Monty Walls]

On Fri, 24 May 2002 15:01:20 -0400
Joshua D Boyd <jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu> wrote:

> On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 03:00:49PM -0400, Rodito Buan II wrote:
> 
> > By the way! Does a Ultra 5 with 270/128RAM/4G HD/FD/CD for $250 USD
> > sounds good? I could maybe replace it with a 400, add in a couple RAM,
> > change the drive to a bigger one and add a DVD drive?
> 
> If it were me, I'd hold out for a U30.  U30s are only about $50 more.
> 
> OK, sure harddrives aren't quite as cheap, but right now I can get 90gigs
> for about $100[1].  I would need to scrounge up some external bays. 
> 

Get the U30, just watch your back moving the backing crate when it arrives.
(my back was stiff for about a week). U30's much more heavily built than
the U5's.  I went with the U30 and get to do the OS install tonight :) now
that I have real disks...

On the scsi, it's SCA-2 UW scsi drives (can take 2 1.6"/40mm drives with spud's)
and has 2 UW channels see: http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Systems/U30/spec.html


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