[buug] Are there any commercial Unix users in this group?

[f.johan.beisser]

On Fri, 24 May 2002, Nick Buchanan wrote:

> Fascinating . . . .
>
> What kind of hardware are you taking about? Come to think of it the problems
> have been localized to a select set of hardware. I see the most failures
> on E3500 - E6500 system boards and CPU's and IBM HDs.  Most of the failures
> are e-cache parity related, but in the sombra class system boards and
> CPU's they mirrored the cache to prevent this kind of system panic. Don't
> get me wrong SUN hardware is stable, but not nearly as reliable as HP
> or IBM hardware.

you obviously know more about the internals than i do ;)

mostly, i've delt with their lower end systems; sparcstation 5s and up.
for most uses, these have been rock solid (i recently came in to a Sun
IPX, it's currently handling my IPv6 traffic for the network, tough little
bugger).

what i've found, though, is that their hardware is more stable, easier to
maintain, and generally of a higher quality than the equivelent PC. of
course, you pay for it through serviceing, or at initial purchace.

Reliability wise, i've had more IBM systems fail for unexplainable reasons
(tape libraries in particular), than most other hardware manufacturers. Of
course, this might simply be due to how ubiquious it was.

of course, i prefer IBM laptops.. go figure.

i can't speak for HP, having not really handled anything of theirs.

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