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Thinking of grabbing a POWER server - Page 3

commodorejohn avatar
commodorejohn
Who joined Oct. 2, 2012, 1:22 p.m.
Wrote the following at Feb. 26, 2015, 11:20 p.m...
I wouldn't get your hopes up for a production run of anything 9000-related. I got my HIL converter from another hobbyist, it's a third-party item, and I'm pretty sure it was manufactured in the mid- to late '90s, when those machines might still have been out in the field somewhere. You'd be better off either trying to find another hobbyist with a spare or trying to hack something up with an Arduino or something than waiting for anybody to do a production run of the things.
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robespierre
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Wrote the following at Feb. 27, 2015, 2:04 a.m...
The chances of getting an Arduino to do anything at wire speed are... remote.
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Alver
From Wetteren, Belgium
Who joined Dec. 7, 2005, 4:46 p.m.
Wrote the following at Feb. 27, 2015, 3:18 a.m...
Kira wrote: You could always get a zx2000 or zx6000 - they're pretty fast (by Old RISC Crap standards) and have good OS support.

Be advised, zx6000's are pretty loud.

Wait, what? My zx6000 is a *lot* quiter than my x86 peecee home server. Granted, I don't push it very hard. If it weren't for the 3 SCSI disks, I doubt it'd be noticeable at all.
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vishnu
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Wrote the following at Feb. 27, 2015, 4:25 p.m...
Alver wrote: Wait, what? My zx6000 is a *lot* quiter than my x86 peecee home server. Granted, I don't push it very hard. If it weren't for the 3 SCSI disks, I doubt it'd be noticeable at all.

Better check it maybe the fans are dead... :shock:
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smj
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Wrote the following at Feb. 27, 2015, 7:30 p.m...
Remember, Alver was an HP minion once upon a time -- he could've actually gotten hold of the ZX6k deskside kit. I read (somewhere) that the deskside config was a lot quieter...
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Alver avatar
Alver
From Wetteren, Belgium
Who joined Dec. 7, 2005, 4:46 p.m.
Wrote the following at Feb. 28, 2015, 2:15 a.m...
smj wrote: Remember, Alver was an HP minion once upon a time -- he could've actually gotten hold of the ZX6k deskside kit. I read (somewhere) that the deskside config was a lot quieter...

Ah, yes, naturally. If it isn't a zx6000 deskside, it's just an rx2600 with gfx added. Which is what a zx6000 really is, but like I said, the workstation version that I have is really, really quiet. :D
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