[geeks] Ultra 20 thoughts

[Joshua Boyd]

On Sat, Jul 02, 2005 at 03:53:28AM -0500, Bill Bradford wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 07:17:05PM -0400, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> >     - it has only two drive bays
> 
> Just like the Ultra 60.  I *like* the way how Sun mounts the drives 
> "sideways" and still uses spud brackets.

I like that.
 
> >     - only 33MHz 32-bit PCI: it should have PCI-X
> 
> I dont know of any systems that have PCI-X *and* PCI-E

Besides, there is always this:
http://www.sbs.com/products/774/
PCI-E -> PCI-X breakout.
 
> >     - only a pair of SATA ports... even on workstations I want the
> >       option of at least 3 drives: 1 for OS, a pair for data.
> 
> If it only holds two drives, why have more than two SATA ports?

Well, there is external SATA...

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