* Scott Stanley <amorphous.yet.not@gmail.com> [2010-11-09 16:58]:
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> I've heard a lot of praise for Sparc gear on this thread. Do many of
> you have much experience with Sun's amd gear?

avoid at all cost

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> Anyway, I was considering buying a Sun Fire V20z (amd) as a home
> server, and would like to hear about any good or bad experiences with
> Sun+AMD (googling yields only media hype and performance reviews, but
> not real world stuff).

the v20z is not really sun, that is newisys. might actually be usable.

all real sun amd64/i386 gear i had my hands on over the previous years
was horrible. and that is mostly due to the management processors
being so incredibly bad. and you can't even turn it off on at least
some systems.

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