chew@ecf.utoronto.ca (Boon-Ping Chew) (10/02/89)
Does anyone out in netland has/use a SUN 330 fileserver ? How good are
they? Are they reliable ? Should we be looking at a SUN 4/280 instead ?
The configuration we are looking at currently is :
SUN 4/280 or 4/330
at least 16 Meg of memory
1 Gigabyte of disk, expandable to at least 5 gigbyte
timesharing for 16 users via terminal server.
Please email your replies and I will summarizes them. Thanksweber@cs.utexas.edu (10/04/89)
In article <1879@brazos.Rice.edu> you write: >X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 149, message 5 of 10 > >Does anyone out in netland has/use a SUN 330 fileserver ? How good are >they? Are they reliable ? Should we be looking at a SUN 4/280 instead ? > >The configuration we are looking at currently is : > > SUN 4/280 or 4/330 > at least 16 Meg of memory > 1 Gigabyte of disk, expandable to at least 5 gigbyte > timesharing for 16 users via terminal server. > >Please email your replies and I will summarizes them. Thanks I think you better read your Sun catalog a little closer.... The 4/280 * 12 slot card cage (8 after CPU/Memory/SCSI/SMD boards are installed) * 19in Rack * 72in High * Requires 230VAC for more than 2 SMD drives * Max 4 SMD Drives * 10MIPS * ECC Memory * Max memory is 32MB The 4/330: * 5 slot (3 after CPU board is installed) * Deskside workstation * 115/240VAC * Four 327MB(f) (from Sun) * 16 MIPS * 8MB on CPU board * Expansion memory on Sun built memory board * Max memory is >32MB For a fileserver you want the fastest disks, controller and VME bus you can get. The CPU speed is an even smaller piece of the picture in a fileserver than it is in a normal workstation. These machines aren't close to being similiar. To compare them is like comparing a 2 seat sportscar to a heavy duty stationwagon. Reliable? I would say that the 330 is no more/no less than any other Sun system. The software breaks much more often than the hardware does (given that its properly installed and maintained). Jeff Weber