Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Sun Unveils Thumper Data Storage

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the named-by-the-sound-it-makes-when-hitting-the-ground dept.

zdzichu writes "At today's press conference, Sun Microsystems is showing off a few new systems. One of them is the Sun Fire x4500, known previously under the 'Thumper' codename. It's a compact dual Opteron rack server, 4U high, packed with 48 SATA-II drives. Yes, when standard for 4U server is four to eight hard disks, Thumper delivers forty-eight HDDs with 24 TB of raw storage. And it will double within the year, when 1TB drives will be sold. More information is also available at Jonathan Schwartz's blog."

16 of 285 comments (clear)

  1. :O by joe+155 · · Score: 3, Funny

    24TB... thats almost enough to hold all my pr0n!

    --
    *''I can't believe it's not a hyperlink.''
    1. Re::O by Don_dumb · · Score: 4, Funny
      28 seasons of Star Trek + all the movies = 250GB.
      That is the most geeky post I have seen on this site for a while, you should be proud.
      --
      If this were really happening, what would you think?
  2. Interesting by Dark+Paladin · · Score: 2, Funny

    I've been talking to the wife about getting a NAS for the house - but now a 1 to 2 terabyte system seems so...puny.

    Hey, honey - remember how I said I wanted to store *all* the movies on the server? Get a load of this ;).

    --
    52 Weeks, 52 Religions with John Hummel
  3. Okay... by Vo0k · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...but how good is it at repelling the antlions?

    --
    Anagram("United States of America") == "Dine out, taste a Mac, fries"
    1. Re:Okay... by PhrostyMcByte · · Score: 3, Funny

      Pick your poison: antlions or Shai-Hulud.

    2. Re:Okay... by Propagandhi · · Score: 4, Funny

      Can't believe I had to scroll this far to find a Dune reference! Shame on you Slashdot.. Shame.. on.. you!

    3. Re:Okay... by fusion9290991 · · Score: 2, Funny

      My money's on Bambi :)

      --
      remember to loot and pillage before you burn!
  4. Dune.. by WizADSL · · Score: 4, Funny

    Thumper? I hope the sand worms stay away...

    1. Re:Dune.. by nacturation · · Score: 4, Funny

      24TB in only 4U... And how can this be? Because it is the Kwisatz Serverrack.

      --
      Want to improve your Karma? Instead of "Post Anonymously", try the "Post Humously" option.
  5. Twitterpated. by Tackhead · · Score: 3, Funny
    > 24TB... thats almost enough to hold all my pr0n!

    Orly Owl: Why, don't you know? He's twitterpated.
    Thumper: Twitterpated?
    Orly Owl: Yes. Nearly everybody gets twitterpated in the Thumper room. For example: You're walking along, minding your own business. You're looking neither to the left, nor to the right, when all of a sudden you run smack into a pretty rack holding 24 TBs of pretty racks! Woo-woo!

  6. Wow by bepolite · · Score: 2, Funny

    If my math is right... that's 50,331,648MB / 295,734,134 (US Population) = 174.27683 kilobytes for every man woman and child in the US. In one box!

    --
    Always be polite.
    1. Re:Wow by pimpimpim · · Score: 2, Funny

      Still less than the 640 k that should be enough for everybody, though! But with four of these you might be ok :)

      --
      molmod.com - computing tips from a molecular modeling
  7. Two and a Half Libraries of Congress by monopole · · Score: 2, Funny

    Or the complete text content of the Library of Congress, coupled with 6 Academic Research Libraries, with the capacity to dump the equivalent of 2 pickup trucks worth of books every second . In a 4U rack. For the price of several cars. Now that's my type of bookshelf system!

  8. Crazy by Reality+Master+101 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeh dern kids today are gawdamn spoiled. Back in mah day, we didn't have these FANcy tahrabyte arrays! My TRS-80 had 128K -- that's right, KAY-uh -- on a floppy! And the operating system took about 40K of that, leavin' me about 85K left! And I was happy to have it! I had tuh use a paper hole-puncher and cut a write-protect tab so I could flip the floppy over tuh get more space! Damn kids these days... -mumble- -grumble-

    --
    Sometimes it's best to just let stupid people be stupid.
  9. Re:cooling by fimbulvetr · · Score: 2, Funny

    p.s.: rails

  10. small potatoes by dwater · · Score: 2, Funny

    Some guy claims even a DVD can hold 50TB :

    --
    Max.