Fire 280R or Enterprise 220R? 3

[Kegnut]

Why is a sun fire 280R drastically cheaper than a Sun Enterprise 220R even though the specs for the Fire are better than the E220R?

Anyone worked with these Fire servers before?

Thanks for the input.

J

 

[mikeclark]

The pricing on all the UltraSrarc III processor machines is very good. I think Sun is using the new range to really push sales. Great if you are in the market to buy a system. As far as performance goes, it depends on what you are using the Server for.
Some applications use multiple processors very well and in that case 2 x UltraSparcII may out perform 1 x UltraSparc III . In general though the faster UltraSparc III machines should be netter value. We have a 280R (single processor 750MHZ ) and it performs as well or better than our 2 x UltraSparc II 300MHZ machine.

 

[Kegnut]

Cool,

Thanks for the input. We are going to be purchasing two of them for development. One will be dedicated as an Apache server, the other will be a Oracle DB server. I've never dealt with dual processors before so I am looking forward to it. Any advice beforehand?

Thanks in advance,

Josh