[rescue] SunFire V100

[Robert Darlington]

Hey, I don't see why not.  They have two 10/100 ports in the back.  That's
faster than any Internet connection I've ever had.

-Bob

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 9:39 AM, Phil Stracchino <alaric at metrocast.net>wrote:

> Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
> > John Lengeling wrote:
> >> How are SunFire V100s?   I have been offered several V100s and need to
> >> decide if I just get a couple of them or if I should tell them to that I
> >> want as may as they can give me.
> >>
> >> johnl
> >
> > In my opinion they still have value.
> >
> > They are low-wattage, having a max usage of 80W fully loaded with 2 IDE
> > drives, sized up to 120GB (137GB is the actual maximum size) each. They
> > are about as fast or faster than the early Netra T1/440Mhz despite
> > having less cache, due to higher clock speed and better memory
> > bandwidth.  The RAM is easy enough to get also.
> >
> > If you can get a bunch cheap or free, I could definitely take some of
> > them off your hands.
>
> Sounds like they'd make a good U5 replacement in applications like
> firewalls...?  I might have an interest in one or two myself.
>
>
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