[geeks] Ultra 20 thoughts

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Tue, 05 Jul 2005 @ 06:41 -0500, Lionel Peterson said:

> >From: Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com>
> >Date: Fri Jul 01 18:17:05 CDT 2005
> >To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
> >Subject: Re: [geeks] Ultra 20 thoughts
> 
> >Regarding the U20, there are some things which I find lacking in
> >comparison to other machines in its class:
> >
> >    - it has only two drive bays
> >    - only 33MHz 32-bit PCI: it should have PCI-X
> 
> It has one PCI-Express x16 slot, two PCI-Express x1 slots, and the
> rest are PCI 33 MHz...

Most of the high end I/O cards right now are PCI-X.

It's not a big deal, it would just have been nice given the current
market.

> >It seems like they skimped a bit to me.
> 
> Yeah, it is not a dream workstation, it is an affordable workstation.
> I think as far as the drive bay issue goes, the Sun "Philosophy" is to
> have crucial data centralized, not out on the edges of the network on
> a workstation...

True... but a lot of geeks don't have centralized storage.

Of course, many of us are working on that problem...


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