Hi

I would guess the Ultra 40 if you go for the dual core option, there may
not 
be much of a difference in the single core options 2.8GHz vs 2.6GHz.
 
Form the sun web site


Ultra 40 Processor
One or two AMD Opteron 940-pin, 200-series single-core CPUs that range
from 2.0 GHz to 2.8 GHz (models 246, 250, and 254) and dual-core CPUs
that range from 2.2 GHz to 2.4 GHz (models 275 and 280) with three
8-GBps HyperTransport interconnects per CPU

W2100z Processor 
Two AMD Opteron 200 Series CPUs that range from Model 244 (1.8 GHz) to
Model 252 (2.6 GHz)

Anthony Worrall



On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 17:28, stan wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 10:50:35AM -0600, Graeme Humphries wrote:
> > stan wrote:
> > 
> > >It's one of those "corporate political corectness" things. Management
> > >recognizes the nae, and if I sugest a "non name brand", I have to a +lot_
> > >more expalining.
> > > 
> > >
> > Ahh well, I figured it'd be something like that. In any case, we're 
> > doing server side compression, and I can't stress enough that you'll 
> > need tons of CPU horsepower on the backup box if you're backing up a 
> > large number of systems. Usually, items from our disklist take about 1/4 
> > of the time to blow out to tape that they take to actually dump to the 
> > holding disk, and the bottleneck is totally the server side compression. 
> > Luckily, fast processors are cheap these days. ;)
> 
> 
> Which sort of leads directly back to the original question. Which of the 2
> bxes I mentioned originally would have the most CPU poweer?
> 
> I'm failry certian it's the Ultra 40, but I could be wrong.
> 
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> Terror 
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