From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 24 06:28:14 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 600D216A4CE for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2005 06:28:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp800.mail.sc5.yahoo.com (smtp800.mail.sc5.yahoo.com [66.163.168.179]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 01F1943D2D for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2005 06:28:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from krinklyfig@spymac.com) Received: from unknown (HELO smogmonster.com) (jtinnin@pacbell.net@64.173.27.163 with login) by smtp800.mail.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 24 Jan 2005 06:28:13 -0000 From: Joshua Tinnin To: "freebsd-chat" Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 22:28:14 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200501232228.15025.krinklyfig@spymac.com> Subject: Sun storage array question (not technical help) X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 06:28:14 -0000 I have recently come across some hardware which was given to an associate of mine some time ago, from a business where he worked that was closing down. Quite a bit of the hardware is test equipment and cryptography oriented (I'm not familiar with much of the latter). But it appears this office ran Sun hardware and software, so there are a number of older Sun workstations and servers, along with hubs and so forth. I'm guessing the age of most of this equipment is late '90s or earlier. Along with these are a few very large Sun storage arrays, probably 3'x3'x4' in size (I'm guessing they're SCSI, but not sure). I'm not sure if the arrays are populated, but from what this person says at least one of them is, but I'm not overly familiar with these. My question is, do people still use or need such hardware anymore, particularly the arrays, considering their age? I know Sun equipment will re-sell for some time, but I'm not at all sure what the age of usefulness of large arrays is. I've already snagged a few Intel and Sparc workstations to use for my home network, mostly to see if FreeBSD will play nice with them, but if it will I'll use them. Many more are available, as well as quite a few Sun monitors, many of them over 20". I'm not trying to hawk stuff here, as my interest is mostly in what can be done with such equipment, but if anyone's interested let me know, as it's going cheap. Also, does anyone know of people who need/use cryptographic hardware anymore? - jt