[rescue] u5>u30?!?

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 09:36:56PM -0400, Kurt Huhn wrote:
> Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> > 
> > On ebay, U5s seem to be going for more than U30s.  What's up with
> > that?  Seems to me that U5s should be the cheapest Ultras next to the U1s.
> > 
> 
> Screw that.  I'll take a U1-E any day over a U5 - hands down.  My
> U1-170E Creator2D is much more responsive than the U5 I use from time to
> time.

I was thinking that PCI would be nice.  I wasn't really seriously looking,
but I feel great shock every time I buy an SBUS card, and at this point
the cost savings of PCI over SBUS cards would have come about halfway to 
buying some of the cheaper U30s.  

I've been thinking about fully rigging out a SS10 or SS20 (dual FDDI, 2
FWDiff controllers, fastE, etc), and the cost of additional SBUS cards
to do that would be estimated around $200-$300 (the only card I really
have is one of the two FDDIs).  The PCI cards on the other hand
would probably only be about $100-$150, plus a PCI machine would be
significantly faster for CPU bound tasks if I put on it.
 
> U30s, are going for very attractive prices - I got one for $500 with
> 400Mhz, 256MB Ram, 2x4GB, Elite3d, and SunPCi.  Sold the Elite3d and
> SunPCi, bought a 36GB drive that came with a metal spud, slammed the 4GB
> drives into my U1, and my net was $400.

I've been seeing some well under $300 for acceptable configurations.
 
> I'll agree though, that the U5 should be way less than the U30.  There
> simply isn't a comparison there - apples to crabapples (they are both
> Sun after all).

Yeah, I knew that U30s were cheap, and was hoping that meant that U5s
would be a price I could just run out and get without worrying.  Oh well.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd

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