Re: Ultra 5/10 vs Ultra 60 for workstation.

gerryt@ wrote: 
Dave (from the UK) wrote:

I am looking to get a *cheap* ultra based workstation to mess about
with. Considering the Ultra 5/10 or 60. Any thoughts about the relative
merits of the two?
The Ultra 5/10 has the advantage of large cheap disks,



and a disadvantage of not being able to use them : <
I believe the hard limit is about 120 GB from memory.


I think the limit is 137 GB.

But SCSI starts getting expensive at that size, so without spending a lot of money, IDE is not such a disadvantage. A 147 GB SCSI disk would cost more than a Ultra 60.

Lest we forget we are talking SLOW IDE here as well.

I forgot that, I think its only ATA-33, which does mean there would be a *serious* performance disadvantage compared to SCSI. I think makes my mind up!

Dual 36 GB SCSI for OS aint too shabby : > 

True. Would have to ask nicely for another drive!!!

For bulk storage you can purchase an inexpensive USB 2.0 card and add
external USB drives with none of the restrictions of the internal Ultra
5
which will only easily fit a single drive..

IIRC the Ultra 10 has space for two drives. May be wrong. Can't say I have ever really looked inside one.

Still, I don't really want one for mass storage - just something I can mess around with, and not care if I trash the OS.

Just interested in other comments about the two machines for a second
workstation. I have a quad processor U80 as a main machine.



With the U60 youd have a comparable machine to the 80...
I dont think youd gain anything from the 5.


Cherrs.

I'll forgot the U5 or U10. I'd forgotten the fact that the IDE is pretty slow on them.

I also have another Ultra 60 here, so can swap RAM, disks and CPUs if need be.

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