Re: Which Sparc is best?
On Wed, 24 Jul 2002 08:03:39 -0400, Ferris McCormick wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, Craig Morehouse wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 23 Jul 2002 22:54:48 -0400, Ben Collins wrote:
>>
>> > On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 06:46:56PM -0400, Craig Morehouse wrote:
>> >> I'm new to Debian, but am going to be buying 30 workstations for a
>> >> new operation, and I'd like to use Sun hardware running 3.0 Woody.
>> >>
>> >> Question, which Sun box has proven to be REALLY good and solid with
>> >> Debian? Are the Ultra 2's better than Ultra 5's or 10's, or vice
>> >> versa? Should I build a bunch os SS20's with 4 cpus, or should I get
>> >> the latest Blade?
>> >
>> > For the most tested and stable machines, go with an UltraSPARC. I'd
>> > suggest one of two types of systems.
>> >
>> > 1) The early IDE line. E.g. Ultra 5 or 10. The reason being that the
>> > machines are cheap to maintain and offer decent performance.
>> >
>> > 2) PCI SCSI based systems. E.g. Ultra 2, 30, 60. If you're interested
>> > in SMP based systems, the 2 and 60 are the way to go. Debian's
>> > primary archive (aka ftp-master, aka auric) is an Ultra60 with dual
>> > 450mhz cpu's, 1.5 gigs of ram and a ~240gig raid5
>
> For what it's worth, my experience with Linux (Debian & SuSE) on an
> Ultra10 suggests that if you are going to stress the disk much at all,
> on such a system, you will want to use one of your expansion slots for a
> SCSI card. Others will have better information, though.
>
> Regards,
> Ferris
>
This makes much sense. I use SCSI on all the important Intel boxes.
One question, though, which SCSI cards work best on UltraSparcs and
Debian?
Thanks.
>
>> Thanks, Ben.
>>
>> We had some early Blades last year, and I really thought that a dual
>> CPU
>> Ultra2 was a better box.
>>
>> Does Debian install nicely on the Ultra 5's and 10's? As you said,
>> there are plenty
>> of 10's around at nice prices.
>>
>> Another question... Are there any Package disadvantages in using a
>> Sparc
>> over an Intel box using Debian? Is the same range of Debian software
>> available for all CPU's?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Craig
>>
>>
>>
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