Unofficial Sun Blade 100 FAQ : Sun Blade 100 hardware questions : Which Sun Blade 100 configuration is best?
It is a good idea to buy the least possible from Sun, because they charge a lot for the parts. For example, they charge over 200 UK pounds for a Seagate hard drive worth 70 pounds. One of the advantages of the Sun Blade 100 is that it can take quite a lot of PC hardware, so it’s a great idea to buy a cheap configuration and upgrade it! The parts I found it necessary to upgrade were: 1) The hard drive. The 15GB drive is both too small and too slow. It is also noisy. I use a Western Digital 40GB drive with a good access time and 2MB cache, and the difference is absolutely unbelievable. If you use swap space, you’ll notice it even more. 2) Memory. If you’re running Solaris 8, 128MB is definitely not enough. You will need at least 256MB to avoid paging all the time. I have fitted 384MB, and that’s comfortable. 3) Graphics. The built in 8MB card will do 1280×1024 with a colour depth of 24 bits. The Expert 3D Lite card can go to 32 bits at 1600×1200 (a much more useful resolution!). It can a
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