31 May
2013
31 May
'13
9:55 a.m.
At 11:24 AM -0400 5/31/13, David Riley wrote:
I worked in a VLSI CAD room next to an Ultra60 at a
customer's site
(this was in 2008, which seems remarkably late for an Ultra60, but
then the licenses for their CAD system were very expensive). I felt
We still had Ultra 60's running later than 2008 due to the CAD
software running on them.
the need to take breaks because of the noise; not fan
noise, but what
I'm pretty sure was the high-pitched whine of high-performance hard
drives. I felt physically uncomfortable after about two hours at a
time.
For about five years my computers lived in the dining room of the
apartment my wife and I had (before our first child was born they
were in the 2nd bedroom). I had quite a few of those drives running
24x7. We have a house now, and it's nice to have an office that's
virtually silent. The servers live in the garage.
Also, heat-wise, what exactly do you people expect from
a company
called Sun?
Even with a Sparc 20 heat was an issue. I actually cooked some nice
drives in the Sparc 20 I ran about 10 years ago.
I've been giving some serious thought to bringing up a Sparc 20 in
some capacity, but if I do, the drives will be in an external JBOD,
and the whole thing will live in the garage. It would also be
something that would only run when I want to play with it.
Zane
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