31 May
2013
31 May
'13
3:34 a.m.
? Wimp. ;)???I ran a fully-configured
E3500 for years.? It really wasn't that bad.
Raised my electric bill by over $200 a month. It draws nearly 15A
continuous in that configuration. I ran it for quite a while, but
eventually had to relegate it to occasional backup service, powering it
on only when I needed it. 
31 May
31 May
9:29 a.m.
On Fri, 31 May 2013, Shoppa, Tim wrote:
Inquiring minds want to know: What does one _need_ a
beast like that for?
:-))
There was a time in the mid-late-90's where a farm of Sun E4000 or Sun E3500's
were the mark of an up-and-coming dot-com (you know, 64-bit and all, a big deal for
someone who didn't have an Alpha VMScluster on their desk earlier in the decade), and
a E10000 (especially being recently ex-Cray) was the mark of a huge dot-com. From where I
sat it seemed to be some kind of unattainable entry ticket, although I'm sure folks
who were elsewhere in the dot com boom felt different :-)
A bunch of Aeron chairs was also a mark of one. ;)
? Wimp. ;)???I ran a fully-configured
E3500 for years.? It really wasn't that bad.
Raised my electric bill by over $200 a month. It draws nearly 15A
continuous in that configuration. I ran it for quite a while, but
eventually had to relegate it to occasional backup service, powering it
on only when I needed it. Tim.
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