[SunHELP] SPARC Server 20...

[bran tregare]

I've noticed that my sparc 20 that now has dual sm61's gives my Ultra 
1-170E a run for the money on everything BUT disk and Network access 
(fast-wide scsi in ultra1e, fast scsi in sparc 20 and 10/100 in ultra1e vs 
10 ether in sparc 20)  Same framebuffer in both, TGX

At 10:31 AM 2/11/02 -0500, you wrote:
>On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Michael Vang wrote:
>
> > I've been offered a SPARC Server 20 with 2x75MHZ CPUs (1MB each, I
> > think) and 2x2.1GB hard drives and the full-height CDROM...
>
> > It is NIB... Apparently it got put away and was never used...
>
> > The seller wants 250 bux for it... I've always wanted a quad SS20, just
> > for fun, but it looks like dual Ross 100MHZ MBus boards are priced a bit
> > high...
>
>Okay, so you know...  The existing processors in that 20 will probably
>run rings around the dual 100Mhz Ross boards.  The SuperSparc II
>processors are worth about twice (Mhz wise) what the Ross HyperSparc
>modules are.  So, quad processors may have more geek points, but you'd
>be better off with the Processors (which are SM71s).
>
>Now... as for price.  First, there is no detail on memory... and that
>could make a BIG difference.  But, myself, I wouldn't pay more than $200
>and that's assuming it had at least 128MB of memory in it.  If you can
>talk him down to $150, I say take it.
>
> > Also, does the NVSIMM only accelerate Prestoserve or does it accelerate
> > all disk I/O?
>
>Well, Prestoserve needs an NVSIMM to work, so in that sense it only
>accelerates Prestoserve.  But I recall Prestoserve can speed all disk
>access on a box.  The big win is with NFS, since NFS requires synchronous
>writes, which are very slow, unless you have Prestoserve...
>
>Hope this helps you out.
>
>--Kurt
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