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Old 01-16-2008, 01:22 PM
Marcin Dobrucki
 
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Default Re: Sparc 20 hard drives?

Triffid wrote:

> Assuming one has mounting frames (or can jury-rig - I made a couple
> using bits of perspex from the surplus store), what's the fastest drive
> an SS20 can actually utilise? I assume anything with an STR over 40Mb/s
> would be wasted, or is it 20Mb/s?


Internal bus is 10MB/s, on the SBUS with a wide scsi card, you can
get almost 20MB/s.
>
> While I'm here, how much difference do Ross 200Mhz processors make to an
> SS20? Could I expect performance equivalent to a 360Mhz Ultra 5 if I
> installed two? Four? Any reason to prefer the twin processor boards over
> singles, aside from the twins consuming an SBUS slot?


Browse the web for CPU info for SS20's. There are heat issues with
some combos.

/Marcin
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