[2301] in Info-AFS_Redistribution
Re: Should be FAQ: which box for server?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Judge)
Mon Jan 31 14:48:15 1994
To: Pat Wilson <paw@rigel.dartmouth.edu>
Cc: info-afs@transarc.com
In-Reply-To: Message from Pat Wilson
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 94 17:49:58 GMT
From: Alan Judge <amjudge@dsg.cs.tcd.ie>
[I'd be interested to hear other people's views, but here is what we
did:]
As straight fileservers on ethernet, I'd look at Sun SPARCClassic
Servers. Standard config includes a 1Gb system disk. We just bought
a few of these and will be adding second SCSI channels, some memory,
and a few 2GB disks to each. Make sure you get SunOS (aka Solaris
1.1.1) and not Solaris 2.x.
I don't know what US pricing is like, but these are pretty cheap for
us compared with anything else.
On the disk side, Seagate Barracuda drives seem the fastest of the
moment: 2GB (formatted), 3.5in, 7200rpm, 8-9ms access.
--
Alan
