> the pi was probably faster than it. If we're talking about 90s or early 2000s Sun, probably. Even then, though, these systems probably had substantially bett

> the pi was probably faster than it. If we're talking about 90s or early 2000s Sun, probably. Even then, though, these systems probably had substantially better I/O performance. I have a SPARC laptop lying around from 1995 that gets a whopping 20 MB/s in disk read/write speeds across its dual half height SCSI drives. That still beats all but the best SD cards. The full size systems with SAS and other options would get even better disk performance.