[Sunhelp] SS5 upgrade.

[Nabeel Ahmed]

I am looking to purchase some memory for Sparc's and Ultra's, the price I am
getting is about 800$ for 256MB, is that decent? I feel it is steep. I am
getting the same size PC RAM for 300$.
Regards,
Nabeel

----- Original Message -----
From: James Lockwood <james at foonly.com>
To: <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Monday, May 01, 2000 5:47 PM
Subject: Re: [Sunhelp] SS5 upgrade.


> On Mon, 1 May 2000, Jonathan Eisch wrote:
>
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I have a ss5, and it's starting to feel kinda slow sometimes.  Would I
> > have to get new memory and hard drives if I wanted to go to an SS20 or
> > SS10?
>
> New memory, yes (SS4/SS5 RAM is unique in the Sun line).  You could use
> the same disks and brackets in a SS20 (and the same case and powersupply,
> for that matter) but to keep using your disks in a SS10 you would probably
> need to put them in an external case.
>
> Another big advantage of going with a SS20 is that when you want to
> upgrade to something like an Ultra 1 you can keep your memory and disks.
> Just need new drive brackets.
>
> -James
>
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