Re: Sun Blade 100 vs Ultra 60

[Dave McGuire <mcguire%neurotica.com@localhost>]

On Feb 11, 2008, at 5:09 AM, Jonathan Perkin wrote:
> > The Ultra 60 looks like a better system and should easily be able  
> > to hold
> > 4 drives, although it would be more exspensive to colo.
>
> Neither are suitable for colo, you should look at either Netra X1  
> (IDE) or
> T1 (SCSI) for bog-standard 1u servers.  These are dirt-cheap on ebay
> nowadays, and include LOM whereas the Blade 100/U60 don't (somewhat  
> handy
> for colo :-)

  FYI, I ran technical operations for a large colo facility in the  
Washington DC area for several years, up until a year ago.  There  
were quite a few Ultra60s in there.

> Possibly, I _think_ the X1 (and therefore the Blade 100, they use  
> the same
> IDE chipset) has a 48bit LBA limit, so I opted to put 120G drives  
> in my X1
> which work fine.

  This is correct, 120GB is the maximum for those machines.  Same  
for the V100...very frustrating.

          -Dave

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