Comments on: Sun Fire x4500 demonstration

By: mchanrohan

mchanrohan — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 08:41:16 +0000

That is my kind of …
That is my kind of porn!

By: audiopixel

audiopixel — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 08:41:16 +0000

woah, that’s …
woah, that’s awsome

By: KrazyKali69

KrazyKali69 — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 08:41:15 +0000

nice
nice

By: jon780

jon780 — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 08:41:15 +0000

You’re retarded. I …
You’re retarded. I don’t even know where to start.

By: ananrus

ananrus — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 08:41:15 +0000

Network engineers: …
Network engineers: post at bells list. com

By: witchdoctor88

witchdoctor88 — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 08:41:15 +0000

You are clueless in …
You are clueless in so many ways, I can’t even begin to count them.

By: enneff

enneff — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 08:41:15 +0000

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.

By: k0zyr

k0zyr — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 08:41:15 +0000

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…

By: guspaz

guspaz — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 08:41:15 +0000

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.

By: nexus2xl

nexus2xl — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 08:41:15 +0000

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