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- From: kint@rio.engr.washington.edu (Rick Kint)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: File server questions
- Keywords: 3rd party disks, SPARCstation 10
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.064851.16283@u.washington.edu>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 06:48:51 GMT
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- Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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- We're going to be setting up a departmental file server to provide
- user file service to about 60 UNIX hosts and 10 PCs. It will not be serving
- applications or diskless hosts and will not be used for computation. The
- server will be hooked up to one Ethernet as will most of the clients.
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- We're probably going to go with a SPARC{station, server} 2 upgrading
- to a 10 when the Viking chips ship. The 600s just don't seem worth it for
- our application, it seems likely that the single Ethernet port will be the
- bottleneck. First question: am I missing something obvious? I've read the
- Sun literature and the "670 vs. SS 10/52" thread and seen nothing so far.
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- Second question: does anyone have any comments on 3rd party disks for
- this? We're looking for the best intersection of price/performance/reliability.
- Since we're spending Real Money on this, price is a real consideration. The
- current front-runner is the Fujitsu 1.3 GB disk, but I'm concerned about the
- noise and heat. Love that warranty though. Some 2 GB drives look interesting.
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- I have (gratefully) read the last couple of weeks of traffic on these
- groups, so there is no need to duplicate recent postings. I will certainly
- post a summary of e-mail responses if warranted.
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- Rick Kint UNIX Geek, College of Engineering
- kint@engr.washington.edu University of Washington, Seattle
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