OH YEA??? [was: Re: [rescue] Ultra?]

[George Adkins]

> > > Cheaper?  Yes.  I've never had to pay for a SPARCstation.  But praytell
> > > what do you think makes them "better"?
> >
> > There are 4 reasons why the U1 is a better machine than a U5 or U10:
>
> You're answering a different question than I asked.  What makes an SS10
> better than a U5?  Some of these apply to the SS10 so I will address in
>
> the SS10 context:
> > 1. Onboard SCSI. No need to waste an expansion slot to get what should
> > have been there from the start.
>
> The SCSI in SS10 is very old and not as fast as the newer UDMA drives
> you can slap in a U5.
>

And a Yugo can go faster than a forklift, but which would you rather move a 
refrigerator with?  Load and IDE Bus and watch the performance plummet, not 
to mention that annoying wait as the OS grinds to a halt, waiting for the 
Disk activity to finish.

Unless of course you were talking about capacity...  In which case, I can 
hang a 711 or a 911 case off of an SS10 and fill it with 36G or 75G drives 
for say...  300Gigs or more of storage without even breaking a sweat.  How 
many UDMA drives can you stick in that U5? How many can you hang of the 
outside without resorting to a ...(wait for it...) SCSI Controller?

IDE belongs in PeeCees, not Workstations.

George