On Tue, November 9, 2010 8:55 am, Scott Stanley wrote:
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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?
>
> When using the "I'm only referring to Sparc" disclaimer, what's being
> implied here (because I know nobody's saying that hardware fails
> because of the CPU type, or am I wrong on that)?
>
> Is it that Sparc boxes are for mission critical apps, and so "let's
> use only the best hardware"?
>
> 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).
>

I've been using a V20z as my mail/webserver for about 4-5 years now...
absolutely fantastic OpenBSD platform... Everything supported and although
the processors are dated they are awesome for my workloads. Wish I had
about 4 more. Sorry for the lake of hard data...