On Tue, November 9, 2010 8:55 am, Scott Stanley wrote: > I've heard a lot of praise for Sparc gear on this thread. Do many of > you have much experience with Sun's amd gear? > > When using the "I'm only referring to Sparc" disclaimer, what's being > implied here (because I know nobody's saying that hardware fails > because of the CPU type, or am I wrong on that)? > > Is it that Sparc boxes are for mission critical apps, and so "let's > use only the best hardware"? > > Anyway, I was considering buying a Sun Fire V20z (amd) as a home > server, and would like to hear about any good or bad experiences with > Sun+AMD (googling yields only media hype and performance reviews, but > not real world stuff). >
I've been using a V20z as my mail/webserver for about 4-5 years now... absolutely fantastic OpenBSD platform... Everything supported and although the processors are dated they are awesome for my workloads. Wish I had about 4 more. Sorry for the lake of hard data...
