On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 08:07:00PM -0500, Bill Pechter
wrote:
I've got a 420R at work -- and I think a
multicpu PIII would put it to
shame in the price/performance area.
*until* you get into serious I/O. Thats when the SPARCs beat the pants
off everything else.
Nope, when you get into *serious* I/O you switch to either IBM or HP. We've
found that we're having to move off of Sparc's because of I/O bottlenecks.
Guess that's what happens when you're shifting Terabytes of data though....
Zane