[Suns-at-Home] ULTRA 80

[Fabio Miranda Hamburger]

On Thu, 24 May 2007, n2vip@verizon.net wrote:

> Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 13:11:21 -0500 (CDT)
> From: n2vip@verizon.net
> To: silvercreekvalley <silvercreekvalley@yahoo.com>,
>     Craig Dewick <cdewick@lios.apana.org.au>
> Cc: suns-at-home@net-kitchen.com
> Subject: Re: Re: [Suns-at-Home] ULTRA 80
> 
>> From: Craig Dewick <cdewick@lios.apana.org.au>
>> Date: 2007/05/23 Wed PM 04:31:10 CDT
>> To: silvercreekvalley <silvercreekvalley@yahoo.com>
>> Cc: suns-at-home@net-kitchen.com
>> Subject: Re: [Suns-at-Home] ULTRA 80
>
>> On Wed, 23 May 2007, silvercreekvalley wrote:
>>
>>> Anyone with an ULTRA 80 for sale? Any spec including
>>> no CPUs/RAM/HD.
>>>
>>> I have a 420R which is a rack mount version, but its
>>> not that handy in an office environment without
>>> wheeling
>>> in a rack (which I'd rather not do).
>>
>> Look at an SunBlade 1000 or 2000 as well - they're in the same enclosure
>> as an Ultra 80. The SB1000 and 2000 share the same system board but those
>> two machines only support fibre-channel disks internally. They have a
>> wide-SCSI port on the back though.
>
> There are great differences between the two systems (Ultra 80 vs. SB1000/SB2000):
>
> As I read the original post, I got the impression that the original poster was looking for a low-cost transition to a deskside chassis from the E420r, reusing CPUs/RAM/HD/IO cards from his existing E420r. A Loaded E420r (4x 450 CPU, 4 Gig RAM, 2x 18 Gig HDs) is quite affordable ($275 on eBay), while a similar dual CPU SB1000 is substantially more (2 to 3 times more, again, on eBay)...

I own a sun blade 1000 and keep it turned off because it consume too much
electricity.

fabio.