Thanks for the prompt replies. Seems like the SS2 wins by a short head. Esp.

if fitted with a SCSI-II SBUS card. The Classic seems to fall short on

throughput due to its lack of cache. But only by a small margin. No-one was

willing to quantify this exactly.

I should have mentioned that our application is mostly for a "read-only" NFS

server, so with lots of memory, disk I/O is not a major concern.

A hint appeared that maybe there's something coming shortly to fill the gap

below SS10....

 Thanks again to...

lam@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Ken Lam)

wolfgang@sunspot.nosc.mil (Lewis E. Wolfgang)

Glenn Popelka <popelka@arnold.uchicago.edu>

Dave Fetrow <fetrow@biostat.washington.edu>

eckhard@ts.go.dlr.de (Eckhard Rueggeberg)

bern@kleopatra.Uni-Trier.DE (Jochen Bern)

lam@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Ken Lam)