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gregw Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 20 Nov 2004 Posts: 106 Location: Warrington, Cheshire, England
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Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2004 8:55 pm Post subject: Should I buy a Ultra5? |
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Hi List,
I have an Ultra30 single processor machine that ahem, curently runs Debian My main problem with the machine is the small disk size. I love the sparc machines and I ma thinking of buying an Ultra 5 (from e-bay) and installing Gentoo on it As I understand it, I can use a normal IDE drive in this machine thus I can get around the disk space limitation on my U30. I've googled this and it seems that the largest disk I can install is about 130Gb which is fine, I was only thinking of using a redundant 60Gb drive anyway.
The U5 will be used as an intranet server, DNS, DHCP, maybe mysql/PHP for my own personal use, the load on the server will not be excessive. I have the time, the equipment is not going to cost me much should I go for it?
Thanks
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Sugarat Guru
Joined: 24 Jul 2002 Posts: 348
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Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2004 9:39 pm Post subject: |
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I've done the same. Stuck a cheap 80Gb barracude in my Ultra5, works well. _________________ --[ UltraSPARC ]--
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ciaranm Retired Dev
Joined: 19 Jul 2003 Posts: 1719 Location: In Hiding
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Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2004 9:43 pm Post subject: |
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Don't ever buy an ultra5. You can get a cheap celeron box for less that will perform just as badly. |
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