31 May
2013
31 May
'13
8:24 a.m.
On May 31, 2013, at 10:53 AM, "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh at aracnet.com>
wrote:
At 4:22 PM +0200 5/31/13, Arno Kletzander 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
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.
Also, heat-wise, what exactly do you people expect from a company
called Sun?
- Dave
I remember doing a test install of Solaris on my
SparcSERVER 1000 (two
processor boards w/ one processor each) in my upstairs bedroom at home
and being already quite impressed by the amount of heat that put out.
The K100 has two impressive-looking radial fans in the bottom and I'm
curious for their noise alone when I'll be powering up that system!
I moved from an Ultra 60/2300 to a dual CPU SunBlade 1000. I
suddenly found I could only run my Sun workstation in the winter,
with the patio door open. Even my Dual 2Ghz G5 PowerMac, and Compaq
XP1000/667 AlphaStation put out less heat! Though once it was fully
up it is pretty quiet IIRC (I haven't powered it on since 2008).