On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 23:14 -0500, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 20:52 -0600, Paul wrote:
The Sun Fire x2100 looks to be in about the same ballpark features & price wise, though I admit I did not look that close into the specs.
The SunFire x2100 uses the nForce4 Ultra -- a desktop chipset! _No_ PCI-X and only PCIe. It's definitely _not_ a server chipset. Especially it's GbE -- it has only a very small SRAM cache.
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ServerWorks was originally Reliance Computer Corporation (RCC). Before entering the retail circuit in the ServerSet III, they designed/licensed most of the Tier-1 chipsets for 2 and 4-way Pentium Pro and Pentium II systems.
I looked on Sun's website at the specs for the server and it did not mention the chipset it used. I thought since it featured PCIe rather than PCI-X for it's expansion slot it might be a desktop/workstation chipset.
Thanks for the info, that scratches that off the list. The one that started the thread looks interesting.
Shame nobody makes a 1U with 3Ware embedded on the board (that I'm aware of).
Regards, Paul