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I looked at these online today. The Sun RAM
and hard drives are outrageously expensive! However,...
---- re: RAM ---
Under FAQs, it says:
2. Is this memory
proprietary?No. The memory used in the
Sun Blade 100 is industry standard.
3. Why buy Sun
memory?This family of
memory products are priced competitively and are tested, approved and qualified
by Sun.
Elsewhere it says: "168-pin JEDEC DRAM with error
correction."
So, I appears that it will take decent non-SUN
RAM. I would certainly argue with the statement that Sun RAM is "priced
competitively"! Check out <FONT
face=Arial size=2>www.crucial.com - on
the front page it says:
"256MB upgrade for Sun Blade 100 Workstation
$70.19 "
(128MB and 512MB modules are also available.)
Sun wants about $300! Crucial's web price is even lower -
$63.89!
--- re: second EIDE disk ---
Hmmm... For about $300, the same price as
Sun's 15 GB disk, one can get a retail
IBM 75GB EIDE Ultra ATA/100 LP Deskstar 7200
RPM 75GXP. Will it work in the Blade 100?
--- re: other ---
I'm not sure whether the Sun 17" or 21" monitors
are decently priced, but the resolutions and refresh rates are certainly not
spectacular. The SCSI card doesn't seem like a bargain and the video cards
are certainly not. So,...
Has anyone tried a third-party SCSI
controller? A third party PCI video card? Third party
monitor?
-Don Granaman
[Certifiable OraSaurus]
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 1:53
PM
Subject: Re: 9i download
Heard one my SA collegue saying that someone has successfully
used PC RAM and something else (don't remember) sucessfully. (Now THAT is
economical workaround).
Anjan
Christopher Spence wrote:
<FONT
face=Arial>Very suitable, it is a great
machine, just don't plan on getting any upgrades cheap. Memory and DVD
are astronomical priced.<SPAN
class=937503514-05062001><FONT
face=Arial>256Mb would be better, but I
believe you can run 9i on 128Mb.<SPAN
class=937503514-05062001><FONT
face=Arial>The blade is a nice machine,
really nice for a workstation as it has USB and some newer features, but
considerably smaller L1,L2 cache which makes it a bit slower for server type
apps than say a U10.<SPAN
class=937503514-05062001><FONT
size=-1>But it is still a great machine for the money, no questions
there.<FONT
face=Arial>Perfect for that task you
mentioned. But i would recommend getting 128Mb
additional. <FONT
face="Times New Roman">"Walking on water and developing software from a
specification are easy if both are frozen."
Christopher R. Spence
Oracle DBA
Fuelspot
<FONT
size=-1>-----Original Message----- <FONT
face=Tahoma>From: Ivan_Rivera_at_doh.state.fl.us [<A
href="mailto:Ivan_Rivera_at_doh.state.fl.us">mailto:Ivan_Rivera_at_doh.state.fl.us]
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001
10:16 AM To:
Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <FONT
face=Tahoma>Subject: RE: 9i download
Paul and all others interested. Ebay
seems to be a great source for used sun boxes, I've also noticed at sun's
site they have a new workstation for $999. Now of course you'd
probably need more ram but this setup looks like it can handle and run 9i,
etc for testing purposes at home. Hardware guys out there could you
determine if this is enough? Thanks. Ivan Rivera
<A target=_blank
href="http://store.sun.com/catalog/doc/BrowsePage.jhtml?cid=60357&catfocus=Desktops">http://store.sun.com/catalog/doc/BrowsePage.jhtml?cid=60357&catfocus=Desktops
Received on Tue Jun 05 2001 - 14:23:00 CDT
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