[geeks] Ultra-1/170e replacement

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Tue, 12 Oct 2004 @ 13:45 +0000, Lionel Peterson said:

> A zippy Ultra 5 or 10 (333, 400, 0r 440 MHz CPUs) would give you IDE,
> and pretty reasonable performance upgrade from a U-170/e, but is
> really a performance increment over the Ultra 1, not a *profound*
> increase.

Can you get three IDE drives in either of those?

The only way I can bring myself to trust IDE for important stuff is to
pair them up in mirrors.

So... I was thinking Sun U5 with a single OS drive, and a mirrored pair
for the data.

Possible?


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