[email protected] wrote: > "All 48 3.5" SATA II disks are hot-swappable." > > http://www.sun.com/servers/x64/x4540/ > > This is what the new archive.org storage facility is using. > Simon > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying > >
The x4500 line is nice, we've looked into them at work for various things but we have generally stuck to LSI/Engenio fibre channel storage direct attached to servers, Sparc or PC. Sun's new fishworks based storage appliances look cool as well. They have a neat gui on top of Solaris 10 that uses DTrace to display detailed stats about the storage. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4 I have been quite disappointed with Sun's AMD64 hardware so far. The AMD64 based servers I've worked with seem to be generally similar in quality/performance as the other big three's PC server hardware but seriously more expensive. It used to be that a sun logo meant something aside from a 30-50% price increase. I support ~200 Sun Ultra40 desktops at work (~$7000 each when they were new) and they have had an amazing failure rate and only come with a 1 year warranty. I have replaced roughly 60 percent of the $850 video cards in the systems I support, most developed problems in the last year, just after the warranty had run out. We also have had to replace quite a few power supplies and motherboards as well as every single one of the type 7 keyboards. They just generally appear to be substandard for the price premium they demand. On the other hand the HP XW4600 workstations we have cost 1/3rd as much, offer better performance, come with a 3 year warranty and generally have had very few problems. Also, HP has been much easier to deal with when we do have problems. It's too bad because the older sun hardware is bullet proof and so was Sun support, it seems those days are gone. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
