One of the things I've complained about in the past is the lack of internal drives in Sun servers.
The X4150 was interesting, in that it had 8 drives in a 1U chassis.
So I'm impressed with the T5240. 16 drives in 2U. Wow! I like it.
Now why didn't the X4450 do that?
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Once they have 300GB SAS discs available, it'll be amazing. I suspect they need all those spindles to keep it fed with data from the discs.
However, what with massive memory capacities, perhaps we'll see a trend to storing everything in memory, and just using discs as a way of preserving it over power loss?
Using FBDIMMs is unfortunate though, as the more modules, the higher the memory latency.
You could squeeze a few more discs in there. It'd be nice (especially on the X4150) to lose the DVD drive and put a couple more discs in. Maybe even slow SATA ones if you don't want to put another disc controller in.
i don't think the sixteen drive backplane is shipping yet, but eight internal drives isn't bad!
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