Re: 9i download

[Don Granaman]

I looked at these online today.  The Sun RAM and hard drives are outrageously expensive!  However,...   ---- re: RAM ---   Under FAQs, it says:   2. Is this memory proprietary? No. The memory used in the Sun Blade 100 is industry standard.   3. Why buy Sun memory? This family of memory products are priced competitively and are tested, approved and qualified by Sun.   Elsewhere it says: "168-pin JEDEC DRAM with error correction."   So, I appears that it will take decent non-SUN RAM.  I would certainly argue with the statement that Sun RAM is "priced competitively"!  Check out www.crucial.com - on the front page it says: "256MB upgrade for Sun Blade 100 Workstation $70.19 " (128MB and 512MB modules are also available.)  Sun wants about $300!  Crucial's web price is even lower - $63.89!   --- re: second EIDE disk ---   Hmmm...  For about $300, the same price as Sun's 15 GB disk, one can get a retail IBM 75GB EIDE Ultra ATA/100  LP Deskstar 7200 RPM 75GXP.  Will it work in the Blade 100?   --- re: other --- I'm not sure whether the Sun 17" or 21" monitors are decently priced, but the resolutions and refresh rates are certainly not spectacular.  The SCSI card doesn't seem like a bargain and the video cards are certainly not.  So,...   Has anyone tried a third-party SCSI controller?  A third party PCI video card?  Third party monitor?   -Don Granaman [Certifiable OraSaurus] ----- Original Message ----- From: Anjan Thakuria To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 1:53 PM Subject: Re: 9i download Heard one my SA collegue saying that someone has successfully used PC RAM and something else (don't remember) sucessfully. (Now THAT is economical workaround). Anjan Christopher Spence wrote:  Very suitable, it is a great machine, just don't plan on getting any upgrades cheap.  Memory and DVD are astronomical priced.256Mb would be better, but I believe you can run 9i on 128Mb.The blade is a nice machine, really nice for a workstation as it has USB and some newer features, but considerably smaller L1,L2 cache which makes it a bit slower for server type apps than say a U10.But it is still a great machine for the money, no questions there.Perfect for that task you mentioned.  But i would recommend getting 128Mb additional. "Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen." Christopher R. Spence Oracle DBA Fuelspot -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 10:16 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: 9i download   Paul and all others interested.  Ebay seems to be a great source for used sun boxes, I've also noticed at sun's site they have a new workstation for $999.  Now of course you'd probably need more ram but this setup looks like it can handle and run 9i, etc for testing purposes at home. Hardware guys out there could you determine if this is enough? Thanks. Ivan Rivera http://store.sun.com/catalog/doc/BrowsePage.jhtml?cid=60357&catfocus=Desktops