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Sun's Thumper Packs on the TerabytesBy Pedro HernandezJuly 11, 2006
Billing the packed-to-the-gills 4U unit as the industry's first "data server", Sun today officially unveiled the Sun Fire X4500.
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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