Sun storage array question (not technical help)

[Kevin Kinsey]

Joshua Tinnin wrote:

>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
>  
>

Last time I visited Greg Lehey's site (www.lemis.com), he
mentioned that he had some storage arrays in the "Mike
Smith Memorial Room" (Old hardware).  I can't remember
if they were Sun stuff or not, but IIRC he was interested in
finding power supplies for them....

You might check out his page first ;-)

Kevin Kinsey