Re: ultra 10 or ultra enterprise II?

From: CJT (abujlehc_at_prodigy.net)
Date: 09/28/05 

Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 19:58:05 GMT

Michael Laajanen wrote:

> HI,
>
> Nic wrote:
>
>> I've bought a second hand ultra enterprise II (256 MB, 1 processor
>> installed). It has some problem at hard disk and the vendor can change
>> it, no problem. Now he's proposing me to change this machine with an
>> ultra 10 (330 MHz, 512 MB Ram). I know the vendor is very honest guy,
>> so I think the machine is proposing me is good, but for me is very
>> hard to choice.
>> Is the ultra enterprise II more difficult to find or what? Because I'm
>> seeing the ultra 10 looks like a machine more powerful.
>>
>> Many thanks for any suggest,
>> Nicola.
>>
> Depends alot of what Enterprise model but I would stick with the U10.
> If he has a faster(440 MHz), get it.
>
> Put a brand new 128GB GB IDE disk in the machine and installed Solaris,
> up to the latest version.
>
> If you use it as a server you can connect SCSI drivers externally easy
> and cheaply..
>
> If you need faster network you can fix that to on the U10, on the
> Enterprise it is not that easy since the GBE adapters are only fiber
> interfaces.
>
>
> /michael

Neither of those machines is going to be able to drive GB ethernet
very effectively, anyway. 

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