Did you even listen … Did you even listen to him on the video? He describes the cooling performance. You think a company like Sun would ship a box like this without testing it first? (Do you think they’d even *build* it if they hadn’t done the maths?)
As someone upthread mentioned, there are many people out there using these boxes in the real world, and they are not seeing the problems you describe.
Have you ever heard … Have you ever heard of thermal asperity for HDDs. The only thing that can end this debate is physics. Can you provide the heat dissipation for this system? it is really just a math…
This system is … This system is clearly meant for people who care more about storage density than anything else. In that case, 48 disks in 4U of space can’t be beat.
It DOES support regular RAID levels, 0, 1, 0+1, 5, 6 to be precise. It also supports RAIDZ and RAIDZ2, which (from a reliability and flexibility standpoint) is a far superior solution to any of those (per-block checksums, for example). Overheating is evidently also NOT a problem.
Performance isn’t the intent; capacity is. At that, it’s the best.
i really don’t … i really don’t believe that they trying to sell ONLY SATA storage server. its even not scalable enough… omg 1 srv 2 FC switch and 1 storage will own this box of disks.
and pls tell me what is “raid z” cant u manage to maintain any regular raid lvls like 0,1,2,3,5,10 etc.
the overheating prob is smth we should think about in this case…
and what about redundancy -2 power supplies are taking care of 40 disks and a server. guys…
Are there any ppl who actually buying this stuff?
Demonstration of Sun’s new Sun Fire X4500 server, a 2-socket AMD server with up to 24TB of storage, by the system’s chief architect Andy Bechtolsheim
February 25th, 2010 at 3:41 am
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nice
February 25th, 2010 at 3:41 am
You’re retarded. I …
You’re retarded. I don’t even know where to start.
February 25th, 2010 at 3:41 am
Network engineers: …
Network engineers: post at bells list. com
February 25th, 2010 at 3:41 am
You are clueless in …
You are clueless in so many ways, I can’t even begin to count them.
February 25th, 2010 at 3:41 am
Did you even listen …
Did you even listen to him on the video? He describes the cooling performance. You think a company like Sun would ship a box like this without testing it first? (Do you think they’d even *build* it if they hadn’t done the maths?)
As someone upthread mentioned, there are many people out there using these boxes in the real world, and they are not seeing the problems you describe.
February 25th, 2010 at 3:41 am
Have you ever heard …
Have you ever heard of thermal asperity for HDDs. The only thing that can end this debate is physics. Can you provide the heat dissipation for this system? it is really just a math…
February 25th, 2010 at 3:41 am
This system is …
This system is clearly meant for people who care more about storage density than anything else. In that case, 48 disks in 4U of space can’t be beat.
It DOES support regular RAID levels, 0, 1, 0+1, 5, 6 to be precise. It also supports RAIDZ and RAIDZ2, which (from a reliability and flexibility standpoint) is a far superior solution to any of those (per-block checksums, for example). Overheating is evidently also NOT a problem.
Performance isn’t the intent; capacity is. At that, it’s the best.
February 25th, 2010 at 3:41 am
I love Sun.
If I …
I love Sun.
If I had a company I would archive ungodly amounts of data and hire more employees just so I could buy more Sun stuff
February 25th, 2010 at 3:41 am
yes, i know a …
yes, i know a customer who bought 8 of them and is running audio/video serving on it..
February 25th, 2010 at 3:41 am
i really don’t …
i really don’t believe that they trying to sell ONLY SATA storage server. its even not scalable enough… omg 1 srv 2 FC switch and 1 storage will own this box of disks.
and pls tell me what is “raid z” cant u manage to maintain any regular raid lvls like 0,1,2,3,5,10 etc.
the overheating prob is smth we should think about in this case…
and what about redundancy -2 power supplies are taking care of 40 disks and a server. guys…
Are there any ppl who actually buying this stuff?
February 25th, 2010 at 3:41 am
WTF wow thats ace
WTF wow thats ace
February 25th, 2010 at 3:41 am
But I bet it won’t …
But I bet it won’t run M$ Vista
February 25th, 2010 at 3:41 am
why didn’t joanthan …
why didn’t joanthan upload this video onto his own blog server? not enough bandwidth? or Sun server couldn’t handle the traffic?
February 25th, 2010 at 3:41 am
I want one of this
I want one of this
February 25th, 2010 at 3:41 am
watch your language …
watch your language kids
February 25th, 2010 at 3:41 am
Andy rocks ..errr.. …
Andy rocks ..errr… thumps!!!!
February 25th, 2010 at 3:41 am
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That is my kind of porn!
February 25th, 2010 at 3:41 am
woah, that’s …
woah, that’s awsome