--On November 5, 2010 9:47:20 AM -0300 Felipe Mesquita de Oliveira
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi All,
I'm long time far from OpenBSD world, but planning to come back.
The plan is to buy an old machine, but, maybe try an new platform, if the
investment worths...
I have these options, all in the same price range:
A) Sun Fire V100 UltraSPARC IIi 650 Mhz - 2x160Gb Hd - 2Gb RAM - CDROM ->
US$ 350
B) Apple Power PC G4 733 Mhz - 768 Gb RAM - 38Gb HD -> US$ 320,00
C) Atlhon 64 X2 +5200, 2 GB RAM, 160Gb HD -> US$ 320,00
The idea is to build an server with: WWW/Email/Firewall funcionalities,
with better stablity as possible.
I don't think that I will need to upgrade for an period, but pieces that
have mechanical components (Hd, cooler) may be a problem, if they are
platform-exclusive...
Thanks for any help, and sorry for any mistake in my English..
Most of the time I would say go with the Sun server for relatively trouble
free computing. However the v100 has no PCI expandability and only a pretty
wimpy IDE bus. So if you want to upgrade to GigE or add more disk you are
SOL. If you can get your hands on a v120 its almost the same system but
with a internal/external SCSI bus and one expansion port. (down side to
this is the 2 internal SCSI drives are pricey to replace) These servers are
great headless firewall/light application servers. And the LOM port is
wonderful if you happen to have a digi or other serial port server. Parts
(other than disk) are more money than the system is worth usually...
The Mac G4: to many headaches IMO (I have 3 or four collecting dust now
400-1.3g). but parts are cheap as long as its no the PS, CPU or logic board
(most of the system). I've lost the GigE port on the logic board on 2 of my
systems, real pain.
Atlhon: cheap easy to get parts, upgrade to some degree... great if you
love to tinker.
And $320 seems very pricey to me for any of theses systems.
