[H-GEN] Compaq Proliant

[Tony Bilbrough]

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G'day David & Robert,
always good to hear from the Time Traveller1
sigh................
and such sensible advice from you both. I will obey.

But I was so looking forward to taking a dual processor to Humbug to 
play with, one day!

So I will keep looking for a faster/newer dual prcessor system, to play 
with. Perhaps an 800 Mz pair?
The new stuff is just too expensive to keep just for Humbug.

I just don't know what to do with the 3 scsi hdd's in side, if I gut the 
boxen! Are they very much slower than the ide hdd's?
The 4 Gb one takes about 15 seconds to spin up, according to the bios. 
The other seem about as slow.

One final qustion
How much 'faster' is a dual 200 [total 400 Mz?] over a single 500 Mz [my 
current Humbug boxen]cpu.
5% , 10% or not at all?
Tahnks for you help
Tony b


> On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, David Jericho wrote:
> 
> 
>>I'd propose at the speed of 200MHz, it's not worth chasing upgraded
>>bits. I'd be contemplating using the otherwise great looking case, and
>>upgrading it to something a little more recent. Probably cheaper too.

Robert Brockway wrote:
> I'm inclined to agree.  Although the hunt for unusual hardware to upgrade
> an older box is kind of fun, the results usually underperform compared to
> modern hardware unfortunately.  There is often expense with shipping, etc
> over and above the basic purchase price.  Can you tell I've been down this
> path? :)> 
> 
> I wonder if the case will take anything like a standard m/b.
> 
> Rob
> 

-- 
cd /etc/rc7.d
ln -s /etc/init.d/bpalogin S50bpalogin


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