Subject: Re: sparc64 hardware
To: Olev <hannula@gmail.com>
From: Volker A. Brandt <vab@bb-c.de>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 09/04/2007 10:35:47
> Well but Ultra 2 is really lacking on the SCSI side. It maxes out at
> about 15MB/s with current drives and that's it - physical SCSI speed
> is max 20MB/s. And there is no upgrade path. I have 2x300MHz one at
> home and the real bottleneck is the slow storage subsystem.

Yes, but remember that the last order date of the Ultra2 was August 200=
0,
more than 7 years ago.  And it still runs Solaris 10 08/2007 (which wil=
l
be out RSN) as well as modern *BSD OSes.


Regards -- Volker
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