[29252] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Laptops as servers?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Woodcock)
Thu Jun 15 04:04:05 2000
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 00:07:55 -0700 (PDT)
From: Bill Woodcock <woody@zocalo.net>
To: Derrick <Derrick@anei.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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> We recently started looking at some of the new Sun Netra T1's they are fast,
> 1u high, come in 110AC or 12 (maybe 24 I forget offhand) volts DC. They are
> real workhorses and perform great for the size and all.
Yup, we've been buying the Netra T1s like popcorn. They're really
kick-ass little boxes. Single Ultrasparc 440mhz, with a gig of RAM, and
two front-accessible hot-swap 36gb disks.
> If you configure it
> with low memory (sun gets a lot of cash for their memory) they are pretty
> cost effective.
You can just buy the RAM 3rd party. It's all made by the same vendor,
anyway, that I've seen so far.
-Bill
