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Re: Enterprise 250 (fwd)

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  • Subject: Re: Enterprise 250 (fwd)
  • Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 10:46:58 -0600 (MDT)

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In-Reply-To: <address@hidden>; from address@hidden on Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 
08:36:01AM -0500

Interesting angle - a Sun does feel like it has a longer
life than an intel based box.  Does the 220 at all appeal
to you?  It's a little bit more restricted in what
you can throw in it (especially disks), but if you
could get by with two disks Sun claims they have
better performance than the 250s.

My personal datapoint - at my current job, we have six 
250s and 450s (3 each) that serve two high trafficked sites on each
box (dual nics), and they sit at 40% idle.  They handle the load
without a problem and have humongous uptimes.  (of course,
just webserving is not CPU bound)

So, grudgingly, I like the Suns I have now (I am responsible
for 35 of them).  They do seem to cost more than they
should, but they don't seem to have very many hardware
problems.

DanA



On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 08:36:01AM -0500, Robert Mullenax wrote:
> Thanks Tom,
> 
> We have a 440Mhz UltraSparc clone (SCSI) that we run LDM/McIDAS/GEMPAK
> decoders plus it serves as a McIDAS/GEMPAK workstation and a web server
> (using CGi scripts) I have come to appreciate it more and more as
> I load more tasks onto it versus our Gateway PII 400 (Solaris x86).
> The load makes the gateway suffer when using it as a workstation.
> I had heard that Sun's really shine when loaded to the max and I see that
> is the case.  Cost is going to be our main concern.  I just don't
> know if I can convince the powers that be that we really need to spend
> >$10,000 when you can get a dual processor Intel for around $6,000.
> Our whole problem is getting money to get upgrades, so my theory
> would be to get something with a long life span and it seems
> to me the Sun's are the way to go.
> 
> Thanks,
> Robert Mullenax

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