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Sun's Thumper Packs on the Terabytes

By Pedro Hernandez
July 11, 2006

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Billing the packed-to-the-gills 4U unit as the industry's first "data server", Sun today officially unveiled the Sun Fire X4500.

Sun Fire X4500 aka Thumper
Sun Fire X4500 a.k.a. "Thumper"
Shoved into its 4U form factor are (up to) 48 drives for a total for a total capacity of 24 TB when outfitted with 500 GB drives. Massive capacity aside, the "hybrid" X4500 was built to provide high-bandwidth applications with ultra-quick throughput and access to said storage for blistering performance for grids along with the business intelligence and digital media arenas among others.

Sun is also hoping that performance figures like 2 gigabytes per second from disk to memory, as well as a $2 per gigabyte starting price will have organizations snapping up the server for their data centers.

A quick glance at the spec sheet reveals that the Sun Fire X4500 runs Solaris 10 and is powered by two dual-core 2.6 GHz Opteron 285 processors matched to a maximum of 16 GB of memory spread over 8 DDR1 slots (4 slots per processor).

The server is available with 250 GB or 500 GB SATA drives spinning at 7200 RPM and managed by six 8-port SATA controllers. Network connectivity is provided by four Gig-E ports and an Ethernet port reserved for network management duties. RAID 0, 1, 0+1, and 5 are supported.

The Sun Fire X4500 starts at $32,995.

The X4500 was also joined today during the company's big x64 server push by the 4-way, 4U X4600 that can scale up to 16-way and the Blade 8000, both of which are similarly based on AMD's Opterons.

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