[SunRescue] Re: New SunBlade

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May I point out two very intresting connectors on the Blade 100.. The
first is a funny squareish-with a hat connector that looks sorta like
"=>", I personally love firewire as a way to attach drives, and other
toys.  They are a bit more expensive, but it's quite fast, and has most of
the bennies of SCSI without alot of the price.  The second connector I
wanted to point out is the other firewire connector <grin>.  Now
admittadly this dosen't solve the PCI shortage, however it solves the hd
shortage easily, and I'd even argue more.
	Nick


On Sun, 18 Mar 2001, Chris Byrne wrote:

> Two things, expansion, and form factor
> 
> I'll (excuse the horrid pun) expand here. The SB100 is an extremely good
> value, however it offers very little room for expansion. There are only two
> drive bays, and it only offers PCI based graphics which would take up one of
> its three slots. Also from what I have seen the pci slots are fairly
> cramped.
> 
> The U10 on the other hand has four drive bays (trust me, a 3-1/2" drive fits
> in the pcmcia card slot), offers UPA graphics, and there's plenty of room
> for cards, with FOUR slots, but the RAM options are a lot less flexible, and
> a lot more expensive, and it doesn't have USB.
> 
> Oh and there is the secondary issue of form factor. Desktop style machines
> take more desk real estate, which for some sites may be a big issue. Also
> desktop form factor machines can have more heat buildup issues since the
> components arejust a bit closer together. In particular the Ultra 5 has had
> problems with the heat issue, even more so if you load the thing up with
> cards, and stick high performance drives in.
> 
> So really it comes down to wherther the SB100 will meet your needs without
> expansion, or if you will need to make upgrades other than RAM or hard
> drives. If you need the extra expansion get the U10, otherwise the SB100 is
> great.
> 
> Now what I really want to see is an SB100-like replacement for the U10 (only
> with more cache)
> 
> Chris Byrne
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> The eyes may be the windows on the soul
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> 
> *I wish there was more room for cables though. I think Sun designed them to
> make it intentionally difficult to connect drives to a scsi card by making
> cable routing hell
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rescue-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:rescue-admin at sunhelp.org]On
> Behalf Of Paul Nguyen
> Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2001 20:55
> To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> Subject: [SunRescue] Re: New SunBlade
> 
> 
> I am looking at picking up additional sun desktop machines and debating
> between the Ultra 10 and the new sunblade.  The U10 is more expensive but we
> are used to maintaining them.  Does any one have any input of pros and cons
> between the 2 machines?.
> 
> Thanks
> Paul
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