[rescue] stuff I forgot...

[Dave McGuire]

On Apr 6, 2004, at 1:30 PM, Joshua Boyd wrote:
>> and it's silly to run an Octane headless.  (how many sets of hands &
>
> Well, an Octane ain't an Origin 2k, but it would make a fairly fine
> server with a tremendous amount of bandwidth for many tasks.  Just 
> think
> how much disk capacity you could add.  You can reportedly get 266megs
> sustained out of the PCI cage, and probably twice that off the XIO
> slots.  Add a (admittedly hard to find) QFE, an FDDI card, and either
> Ultrascsi cards or FC-AL cards and watch it scream as a file server or
> small database server.
>
> Also, it should, I think, make a fairly affordable HIPPI (assuming one
> can avoid the being assulted on the HIPPI card) file server, if one
> didn't already have a monstrous Alpha for the task.
>
> The only major short coming I can think of is the overhead of GigE can
> reportedly be problematic on anything less than a dual 300.

   I agree with everything you're saying...my statement was intended to 
convey my opinion that, since they make such damn fine workstations, it 
seems like a huge waste to run one headless.

   And with the price of Origin 200s nowadays...HOO boy.  Even R12K 
machines are super cheap!

        -Dave

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