[geeks] valuation on a sparc 2 / ss10?

[Bill Bradford]

On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 07:52:26AM +1100, Craig Armour wrote:
> I'm not sure why you guys would even look at U2's etc when for a measily 
> $1000 you can 
> get a sunblade 100 at 500mhz.  I'd rather one of those suckers.  and for 
> the rack mount fiends... x1's *shrug*

Lets see (oh god, not this again)
- U2 does SMP
- U2 has more cache on the CPUs (makes a BIG difference)
- U2 has SCSI (extra-cost on the blades)

B100 is a desktop system.  I have one.  I wouldnt try to use it to
replace an U2.

X1 is a crippled (no cdrom drive!?) B100 in a 1U case.  I had its
precursor (kinda.. the Netra AXe board) as the old sunhelp.org server.
Had tons of problems with IDE drives.

CPU speed isnt everything.

Bill

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Bill Bradford
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Austin, TX