[Gllug] Sun Sparcstation - is it any use...?

[Nix]

On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, John Edwards stated:
> On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 09:18:25PM +0100, Nix wrote:
>> I've had fan failures on my Netra, compounded by Sun's lovely swapping
>> of the leads on the fan, meaning I had to splice cables before the new
>> fan would work.
>> 
>> But the general consensus seems to be that Netra build quality is lower
>> than that of Suns of old :( and anyway nothing else has failed and it's
>> humming away in the loft now happily.
> 
> Not just the Netra, but the Ultra 5 and Blade 100 machines were 
> more prone to failure. Some might say that this was related to 
> the lower cost and more generic PC parts in them (eg IDE drives).

I think I *like* the nearly-replacement of SBus with PCI, actually,
and not all the drives in Netras are IDE (my t105 has twin SCSIs,
faster than any disk I saw for years after buying it, too).

The problem was, well, I don't think I could have found fans as cheap
as the ones Sun put in (sleeve bearing! ye gods!) --- I hope the rest
of the hardware is better than that. :/

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