[rescue] Identifying SGI in picture for interests sake

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 06:51:31PM -0500, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> 
> > Why not a Sun of some sort?  Given prices and hardware availability, it
> > seems saner.
> 
> XFS is nicer than UFS, and I have an Octane.  I'd need to buy a Sun to
> house these discs.  Samba and NFS play just as nicely on IRIX as they do
> on Solaris.

It seems that it would be expensive to add more than 2 internal and 6
external disks to an Octane though, not to mention having so many high
performance disks on a single UW chanel (refering to the 6 external 
disks). 
 
> I'd probably have used a Sun if I had a U60 or U80 instead of an Octane,
> as I have no real preference between the two for fileserving.  I haven't
> played with a U60 as a workstation, so I don't have any opinions at all
> there.
> 
> Actually, my prefered fileserver would be an E450 or an E3[05]00--
> relatively compact deskside systems with all sorts of wonderful room for
> internal storage devices.  An O200 would be nice, too, but second-hand
> O200s seem to be almost as expensive as moderately-loaded used E3000s.

I couldn't say.  Pretty everything is out of my price range.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd