Path: utzoo!utgpu!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!husc6!ogccse!blake!uw-beaver!rice!sun-spots-request From: mrd@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Michael DeCorte) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: 2/120 as servers? Message-ID: Date: 22 Feb 89 06:56:05 GMT Sender: usenet@rice.edu Organization: Clarkson University, Postdam NY Lines: 38 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu Original-Date: 14 Feb 89 03:24:03 GMT X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 163, message 9 of 18 Hello, I would like to know if anyone has the following basic configuration or knows about it. 3/50's and 3/60's hooked up to 2/120 with XY 451 and 850 meg CDC drives (in other words capable of 2.3M/sec transfer) 4 Meg ram Sun OS 4.0.1 (not optional) You see I have a few of these things and would like to use them as disk servers. They will be doing nothing else except servering disks. Think of them as a poor man's server. They seem fully capable of pushing the disks to their all out max but I can't really test their either capability without hooking them up to a bunch of 50's and abusing the 50's for a few days. I have this gut feeling that a 2/120 should be able to handle 4-6 clients but I can't really tell and would really like to hear from ANYONE who as really done this. If you have hard numbers comparing them to a 3/260 or 3/280 then I would be in heaven. If you do have something to tell me please mail to mrd@sun.soe.clarkson.edu. I would like to hear from you as soon as possible as some decisions must be made very quickly. thank you -- Michael DeCorte // (315)265-2439 // P.O. Box 652, Potsdam, NY 13676 Internet: mrd@sun.soe.clarkson.edu // Bitnet: mrd@clutx.bitnet Clarkson Archive Server // commands = help, index, send, path archive-server@sun.soe.clarkson.edu archive-server%sun.soe.clarkson.edu@omnigate.bitnet dumb1!dumb2!dumb3!smart!sun.soe.clarkson.edu!archive-server