[rescue] intel vs. sun- for real

[George Adkins]

> OK, I've got a similar question. I'm wanting to replace 8 Intel boxes
> running Solaris with SPARC(s). Can someone recommend a suitable machine
> that won't cost upwards of $100,000?
>
> The machines in question are each attached to eight 73G drives, and suck
> backups from the client servers on our network. They're doing this
> fairly constantly, day and night, and gzipping the data (keeping the
> load off the client boxes). The move the data off to tape once a week
> for (semi)permanent archiving.

How about 8 U1E's? 170's or 200's.
They should be able to take all the data you can push through a network 
interface, and they will handle 73 gig drives. (one each)

I'm making the assumption that your machines are on fast-E, not Gigabit or 
SAN.

George