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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."

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  1. Another unit is called Bambi because by Tandoori+Haggis · · Score: 0, Troll

    its deer.

    (er sorry folks..)

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  2. Re:Holy SHIT! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    I bet the thermal budget allows four of them to be dead at any given time.
    If their piece of shit Netra V210 servers are any indication you'll desperately need that redundancy. Our server was less than 18 months old when it lost a power supply fan and another 4 months before the system disk started popping up tons of read errors. I know I'll never buy another Sun box after our experiences with this piece of shit. It is a far cry from the quality we had with the e450 and e420R and even the Netra AC200 systems. Fuck, our Ultra 10s were more reliable than this thing.
  3. Re:I want one! by ScottLindner · · Score: 0, Troll

    You actually know something more about how this product works? I didn't do any research on it. But in general, I tend to have respect for Sun hardware. Sun software on the other hand (Solaris) I tend to have very little respect for. It works and works well, but is clunky and very outdated IMHO. Yah.. I'm a Linux guy.

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