[geeks] Re: [rescue] Re: Sad end to SGI Power Challenge XL story

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 09:51:03AM -0800, Peter L. Wargo wrote:

> 1) Really cheap: SS1000 with 85MHz modules.  *great server*, and almost 10
> years old.

I thought those looked like nice machines, but I didn't know that could pump
that much data.  Not that I can currently afford anything that can pump that
much data.
 
> 2) Cheap: E4000 or 4500 with 4 250MHz 1M cache CPU's (cheap!), and a
> metric buttload of I/O boards.  each I/O board has 100Mbit ether, 4SBUS
> slots, 2 spots for FC GBICs, and a FW SCSI.
> 
> I still think that the E4000/4500 may be the best system *ever* made by
> Sun.

They sound cool.  They certainly are expensive though.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd