[Sunhelp] ultra 30 vs. ultra 10

[Magnus Abrante]

Quite much actually, the U30 was the first of the machines in the
"Darwin" series, and i think its EOL now, replaced by the U60 
machine.

Basicly, the U30 uses the same CPU as the UE250, UE450, U60 etc. 

The main difference between the CPU used in the U10 and the CPU in the U30 
is the fact that the UltraSPARC IIi CPU used in U5/U10 deals with PCI and 
such internaly, whereas the UltraSPARC II CPU used in the other machines 
deals with this in a special chip. Then there are probably more differences 
as well, but i cant really remember them right now ;).

Appart from the CPU the U30 differs from U5/U10 in a number of ways:
* The U30 has a SCSI interface instead of IDE
* There are more memorybanks in the U30
* The U30 has 2 UPA slot and the U10 has 1

Then again i think the U30 should be compared with the U60 and not the
U5/U10.

Regards,

        //Magnus Abrante
/* This is my opinion and not the one of my empolyer */

> 1,000 us dollars?
> What's the big difference between Ultra 10's,30's and 60's?
> The computer I have here is a Ultra 60 on loan and said it was around 16,000
> USD.
> All I want is a faster processor....
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	Bill Bradford [SMTP:mrbill at mrbill.net]
> > Sent:	Wednesday, August 23, 2000 4:15 AM
> > To:	sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> > Subject:	[Sunhelp] ultra 30 vs. ultra 10
> > 
> > Okay, if you had a choice between:
> > 
> > Ultra 30, 300mhz, 384mb, C3D, 4gig (all-scsi)
> > 
> > and 
> > 
> > Ultra 10, 300mhz, 384mb, PGX8, C2D, 4gig (all-scsi)
> > 
> > Which would you choose?  and why?
> > 
> > I've got an angle on some U30s for just over $1k in the
> > config above, and am thinking of possibly trying to sell
> > this U10 for that much, if changing systems is worth it.
> > 
> > Bill
> > 
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