The Sun Fire X4275 Server comes in for some generous praise in Dave Mitchell's review for ITPro, from whom it receives four out of six stars as a solution eminently qualified for duty in such storage-hungry applications such as multimedia, data warehousing and video surveillance, given its 12 TB and 24 TB SATA drive configurations.
Sun Fire X4170, X4270 and X4275 are part of Sun's new family of servers based on the Intel Xeon 5500 series processors. These new servers are best suited for large enterprises as well as for sophisticated small and medium businesses (SMB).
The impressive benchmarking results turned in by the Sun Fire X4600 M2 in running VMware VMark are helpfully interpreted by Tobias Esser in his blog, "Need a Proof? Here you go." The competition, third-place HP ProLiant DL785 G5 and the fourth-place IBM System x3950 M2, Esser asserts, were left in the dust. Compared to its rivals, the Sun Fire X4600 M2 delivered higher bandwidth with the same workload. The Unisys ES7000 Model 7450R was the second place finisher, Esser adds.
The Intel PRO/1000 PT (PCIe) Desktop Adapter is available as an XATO option for the Sun Ultra 24 Workstation. This adapter can maximize system performance and increase end-user productivity through the use of auto-negotiation technology, which allows the adapter to run at the highest available network speed (10, 100 or 1000 Mbps) while maintaining full bandwidth capacity with the dedicated 2.5-Gbps bandwidth of a PCI Express (PCIe) input/output (I/O) bus.
The 300GB 10K SAS drives are now available for Sun servers including the Sun Fire X4140, X4240, X4440, and X4600 M2 servers as an X-option or in Assemble to Order (XATO) configurations. The specifications on this drive include an average seek time of 3.5 msec / 4.0 msec, 170 IOPs to 350 IOPS, and a Maximum instantaneous data transfer rate of 300 Mbytes per sec (Dual Port).
The Sun Blade T6320 and T6340 Server Modules now support 300GB 10K RPM 2.5" SAS hard disk drives.
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