Hi I would guess the Ultra 40 if you go for the dual core option, there may not be much of a difference in the single core options 2.8GHz vs 2.6GHz. Form the sun web site
Ultra 40 Processor One or two AMD Opteron 940-pin, 200-series single-core CPUs that range from 2.0 GHz to 2.8 GHz (models 246, 250, and 254) and dual-core CPUs that range from 2.2 GHz to 2.4 GHz (models 275 and 280) with three 8-GBps HyperTransport interconnects per CPU W2100z Processor Two AMD Opteron 200 Series CPUs that range from Model 244 (1.8 GHz) to Model 252 (2.6 GHz) Anthony Worrall On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 17:28, stan wrote: > On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 10:50:35AM -0600, Graeme Humphries wrote: > > stan wrote: > > > > >It's one of those "corporate political corectness" things. Management > > >recognizes the nae, and if I sugest a "non name brand", I have to a +lot_ > > >more expalining. > > > > > > > > Ahh well, I figured it'd be something like that. In any case, we're > > doing server side compression, and I can't stress enough that you'll > > need tons of CPU horsepower on the backup box if you're backing up a > > large number of systems. Usually, items from our disklist take about 1/4 > > of the time to blow out to tape that they take to actually dump to the > > holding disk, and the bottleneck is totally the server side compression. > > Luckily, fast processors are cheap these days. ;) > > > Which sort of leads directly back to the original question. Which of the 2 > bxes I mentioned originally would have the most CPU poweer? > > I'm failry certian it's the Ultra 40, but I could be wrong. > > -- > U.S. Encouraged by Vietnam Vote - Officials Cite 83% Turnout Despite Vietcong > Terror > - New York Times 9/3/1967