Re: Sparc info from meeting

["Stephen Carter" <carter@example.com>]

I'll have to visit Otto, though you are right, the prices do seem a bit
high.

Particularly for the Hard Drive, I'd think getting a larger HD with the
standard sort of connector, rather than the SCA, and just using duct tape or
something like that to put it in the case would get a lot more bang for the
buck.

But I understand how nice it is to have things fit just right, and the SCA
connector and the HD carrier Sun uses is quite wonderful. It's part of what
makes working on Sun hardware "better." And for many uses, the 1GB is
enough. I have Solaris 8 on a single 1GB, and it's fine for a number of
purposes.

Steve Carter


----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Lee" <sl@example.com>
To: <tlug@example.com>
Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 12:02 AM
Subject: Re: Sparc info from meeting


> On Sun, 21 Jan 2001 17:17:53 +0900
> "Jack Morgan" <j-morgan@example.com> wrote:
> >
> > I called Otto (5th floor in a building across from Laos, which is next
to
> > Plathome) They have 64B memory Y15,000 and 32MB Y9,800. They also have
1.0GB
> > HDD for Y12,800 A little expensive but have it if you need it now. The
best
> > pat is that they have HDD housing/cases for Y2,800.
>
> For Y12,800, wouldn't you be better off buying an external SCSI case and
> buy whatever big SCSI HDD you want and connect them extenally?
>
> Stephen
>
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