Please reply to the list rather than to me personally - I do read the posts and it allows others to benefit from your wisdom.
>> The IDE limitation is 120GB (ish) - however, this does not mean it >> wouldn't be a useful backup box - stick a USB card in, very cheap >> these days, and attach an external drive. > > This is not fast ... I never said it would be fast, I was attempting to provide an alternative to the 120GB limit with the internal IDE. I personally use an internal SCSI card with 72GB, 15k drives for storage - quick, not the cheapest but works "out of the box". >> Or pick up a cheap SCSI card - about £20 from eBay and one of the 7 >> or 12 slot external enclosures and have yourself a nice RAID backup :-) >> > This is not cheap ... (unless You have already some old SCSI drives, but > those are also not fast ) The old SCSI drives are probably going to be faster than the internal IDE - the U5's IDE subsystem is terribly slow. >> The Ultra 5's (and 10's) still make remarkable good workhorses in >> these days of multi-core, multi-gigahertz machines .... they make >> wonderful development boxes too... > > To my knowledge, the fastest and cheapest solution for an U5 is: > By a cheap SATA card ~30 EUR with two slots, the SATA drives have > usually similar prices to PATA for sizes up to ~200 Gig. Above SATA is > even cheaper than PATA (as far as I've seen). There are also SATA cards > for more than two HDD's, but those are more expensive too - don't know > the prices ... > I use it primarily as a server for home video files ('few hundred gigs') > from my satellite and cable receiver. That would probably be cheaper, and fairly quick - does OBP recognise the SATA controllers as bootable devices? I haven't played with SATA so have limited knowledge in that area - SCSI is my "thing". :-) It all depends on what the OP wants to use the box for - I believe that's the question he was asking....as a developer I see some good potential in the little U5's, and 10's - a [333/440]/1GB U5/10 still makes a bloody good development workstation....quick enough for most tasks. Cheers, Pete. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]