I looked at them and infact I have another G3 mac, but the issue
with it
is that they are still in the larger case. I would like to use the
Sun
Blade 100 because it is small and hopefully will run at about the
same
speed as the G3.
Why don't you get a i386 box in a 1U case? It will faster, probably
cheap
and have fine working IDE or SATA. And a second network will work
without
any problems.
There is no good short answer to this. I guess if I had to give one, it
would be I am afraid to use a PC. Every time I get involve with any PC
I
lose money and I am so broke I just don't have money to put into
another
server that doesn't work. I used 2 leased servers that were so bad
that I
was lucky I didn't go out of business. The one was so bad that in
crontab
"shutdown -rf now" had to run every 2 hours. Worse than that,
sometimes it
would still not make it 2 hours before it crashed.
Even when I worked for an ISP we had problems with the intel servers.
They
put $5,000 into a dual processor P3. The guy that I worked with had
said
he was going to give me 2 suns (they were not ultrasparcs). They were
really old systems even then. I installed NetBSD current (this would
have
been around 1.6) and eventually the whole ISP was being run off an old
sparc. Even going back to the P3 after it had a restall of linux
(NetBSD
would not reconize the scsi raid card) it still just keep on crashing.
So,
it was just used for a long time for NFS because the suns ran out of
space
on their drives (it only needed to be rebooted once in a while when it
was
just doing NFS). I think now he put a different scsi card in it and it
is
running NetBSD.