[rescue] playing with the new E250 ... disk performance vs. old PeeCee

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: Magnus <magnus at yonderway.com>
>Date: 2006/12/16 Sat PM 05:25:02 CST
>To: The Rescue List <rescue at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [rescue] playing with the new E250 ... disk performance vs. old PeeCee

>I wrote:
>> Looks more like it maxes out at 20MB/sec.
>
>
>Just to answer my own question, http://www.e250.net/ says of the E250: 
>"One 40MB/sec, 68-pin,Ultra SCSI (SCSI-3), 2 channels (synchronous)"
>
>So my bottleneck is elsewhere.

The E250 is just really an Ultra 2 in a different box (of course it is PCI not SBUS, and can't take a UPA framebuffer (vertical or horizontal).

I like the E250 (mainly for the 6x SCSI trays), but they are not the be all/end all servers for their size...

Lionel