[rescue] good sources for USIII + systems

[hike]

On Jan 22, 2008 12:03 PM, Patrick Giagnocavo <patrick at zill.net> wrote:

> On Jan 22, 2008, at 11:44 AM, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
>
> > Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
> >> I don't know if it is because Sun had a sales slump, or for some
> >> other reason, but inexpensive USIII-based systems and those based on
> >> the T1 chip are still hard to find on eBay at least.
> >>
> >> Anyone have any good sources for such systems?  Minimum RAM
> >> capability needs to be 16GB RAM because I do a lot of zones etc.
> >> Right now it seems dual-Opterons with lots of RAM are at least half
> >> the cost.
> >
> > Depends on what you mean by inexpensive.
>
>
> Well, allowing for some of the nicer features that Sun gear has (true
> LOM etc.), and comparing e.g. typical IO and memory bandwidth, the
> USIII stuff is overpriced compared to the similar performance you can
> get from Opterons running e.g. 64 bit Solaris.
>
> Example:
>
> cheapest Sun 16GB system is a 14U V880 with 16GB RAM, 8x900Mhz CPUs,
> 4x36GB disk  $2850
>
> http://cgi.ebay.com/Sun-V880-Server-w-8x900MHZ-16GB-
> RAM-144GB_W0QQitemZ170186314927QQihZ007QQcategoryZ51239QQssPageNameZWDVW
> QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
>
> similar in CPU power (probably a lot faster actually), quad-Opteron
> (though not a V40z as claimed in ad)  $1600 in a 3U or 4U chassis
>
> http://cgi.ebay.com/Newisys-4300-Sun-V40Z-Quad-2-0GHz-16GB-2x73GB-
> Server_W0QQitemZ160201258598QQihZ006QQcategoryZ51238QQssPageNameZWDVWQQr
> dZ1QQcmdZViewItem
>
> Almost double, for a much larger and less compact system.
>
> --Patrick
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anysystems.com
decent prices for a business-buyer with a one year, "bumper-to-bumper"
warranty.
nice floating, rubber ducky included with each server purchase!
(i don't work for them but have purchased 4 or 5 servers from them--duckies
are at home so i can't count them from work.)