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From: wcs@cbnewsh.att.com (Bill Stewart 201-949-0705 erebus.att.com!wcs)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.sun,comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Which Sun Disks to use?  SCSI vs IPI vs SMD?
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Date: 14 Nov 90 05:18:28 GMT
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We're planning to get a Sun server for NFS, and are trying to decide whether
to get a cheap Sparcstation with SCSI, a Sparc2 with SCSI,
or one of the big honking expensive servers with IPI or SMD.
Are the SCSI systems fast enough?  Will UNIX 4.1.1 help performance
substantially on the pre-Sparc2 machines?

Initially we'll have a few diskless and dataless clients,
but we'd like to be able to grow a lot and also have some spare CPU
around for X-terminal support, as well as a few people with 120-MB
working sets that we may run on a server.

We know about Auspex, but they start at $80K and we don't have a lot
of client machines.

				Thanks;  Bill
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					Thanks; Bill
# Bill Stewart 908-949-0705 erebus.att.com!wcs AT&T Bell Labs 4M-312 Holmdel NJ
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