On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 23:14 -0500, Bryan J. Smith wrote: > On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 20:52 -0600, Paul wrote: > > The Sun Fire x2100 looks to be in about the same ballpark features & > > price wise, though I admit I did not look that close into the specs. > > The SunFire x2100 uses the nForce4 Ultra -- a desktop chipset! > _No_ PCI-X and only PCIe. It's definitely _not_ a server chipset. > Especially it's GbE -- it has only a very small SRAM cache. <SNIP> > ServerWorks was originally Reliance Computer Corporation (RCC). Before > entering the retail circuit in the ServerSet III, they designed/licensed > most of the Tier-1 chipsets for 2 and 4-way Pentium Pro and Pentium II > systems. I looked on Sun's website at the specs for the server and it did not mention the chipset it used. I thought since it featured PCIe rather than PCI-X for it's expansion slot it might be a desktop/workstation chipset. Thanks for the info, that scratches that off the list. The one that started the thread looks interesting. Shame nobody makes a 1U with 3Ware embedded on the board (that I'm aware of). Regards, Paul