The E250 is quite old, over 7 years I think. Your application set
should dictate SPARC or x86. If the applications are available on both,
I'd go with fastest chip, most memory, and fastest disks.
Memory seems a bit lite in all the below configs with the exception of
the T2000 and 40z. Problems with those is that they have slower chips.
The T2000's are great for scaling out vertically but not so great at
quickly launching interactive applications.
Hana Skoumalova wrote:
Hello,
in our institute, we have an E250 and 5 SunRays. The E250 was sold as a
"workgroup server", a computer designed to serve the SunRays, but the X
window applications were always notably slow. Recently, it became real
pain to work on this machine locally (in graphic environment).
We are thinking about buying a new machine and we hover between another
Sparc, and Linux (x86-64) machine. We got an offer to buy two Sun
machines for the price of one and I want to ask you for your opinion.
The server should serve 5 users, where all users run an X-server,
desktop manager, Mozilla/Firefox, they may run OpenOffice, emacs with
huge files opened, and from time to time they may run a program which
makes busy one processor.
The offer includes these Sun Fire servers:
SF T2000 4core 1.0GHz, 8GB RAM, 2x73GB HD
SFV40z 2x852,4GB,1x73GB S3
SFV125,1x1Ghz,1GB,1x73GB,1xPSU
SFV210,2x1.34GHz,2GB,2x73GB
SFV215,1x1.5,1GB,1x73GB,1xPSU
SFV240,1x1.34GHz,512MB,1x73GB
SFV245,1x1.5,1GB,1x73GB,1xPSU
SFV245,2x1.5,2GB,2x73GB,2xPSU
Thank you.
Hana
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