Re: Seeking Sun hardware recommendations...

From: Erik Magnuson (erik_at_tfb.com)
Date: 07/31/04

  • Next message: Nick Brennan: "Re: Openwin (still in 9)" 
    Date: 30 Jul 2004 21:52:33 -0700

    Rich Teer <rich.teer@rite-group.com> wrote in message news:<Pine.SOL.4.58.0407291557470.8791@zaphod.rite-group.com>...
    >
    > I'd avoid the Ultra 5 if I were you. They're cheap, but memory
    > upgrades can be quite expensive. Also, their IDE implementation
    > was a bit sub-optimal, IIRC. But if you go for the Ultra 5, you
    > won't need to buy a monitor.

    I wonder how much of the reputation of poor IDE performance on the
    Ultra 5/10 was due to the s-l-o-w hard drive that was originally
    shipped with them? The experience I've had with 7200 rpm drives in my
    Ultra 10 has been good - the box is rarely limited by disk
    performance.

    As you said, one big downside for the 5/10 is that memory is *not*
    cheap. One upside is that they use type 5C keyboards.

    -Erik

  • Next message: Nick Brennan: "Re: Openwin (still in 9)"

    Relevant Pages

    • Ultra 5 - RED State Exception
      ... Two days ago my Ultra 5 started locking up. ... The console would become ... It has the 400 MHz processor, and 512 MB of memory. ... It had hung during the dump. ...
      (comp.sys.sun.admin)
    • Ultra 5 - RED State Exception
      ... Two days ago my Ultra 5 started locking up. ... The console would become ... It has the 400 MHz processor, and 512 MB of memory. ... It had hung during the dump. ...
      (comp.sys.sun.hardware)
    • Ultra 30 - powers on but wont boot
      ... I have an Ultra 30 here as a test machine. ... swapped hard drives and loaded Solaris 10. ... it will boot, I am greeted with the open boot (ver. ... memory and I get the ok prompt - it appears to hang after memory checks. ...
      (comp.sys.sun.hardware)
    • Ultra 40 memory performance
      ... I got an email from someone tonight who had borrowed from Sun an Ultra 40 (two Opteron 280 dual core processors, 16GB of memory, Quadro FX 4500 gfx) with a view to buying some if suitable. ... They compared it against then HP xw9300 and whilst the CPU performance was about comparable between the machine, the memory performance of the Sun was quite poor. ...
      (comp.sys.sun.hardware)
    • Re: Machines Left in the Cold....
      ... > before on Ultra, usually it's sth loose or a build up of dust. ... memory is counted and right after I get a block cursor ... and running now, however U60 is still same, block cursor. ...
      (comp.sys.sun.hardware)