My Review of Sun Fire X4600 Server

Originally submitted at Sun Microsystems

The Sun Fire X4600 server, featuring AMD Opteron processors, packs the punch of two Xeon 4P servers in a more space-efficient and energy-efficient system for tremendous operating cost savings. Its modular design makes upgrading to future processor technologies simple and non-disruptive. The server'...

Sun Fire X4600 Server

Insufficient disk space

By Noel "Envite" Torres from Valencia, Spain on 7/3/2008

 

4out of 5

Pros: Fast, Up to 8 Quad, Easy Set Up

Cons: Bulky, Small disk space

Best Uses: Science

Describe Yourself: Quality Oriented

At Universidad de Valencia we bought this machine for scientific simulations. We're very happy with it's ease of installation and configuration, and with it's calculating power with 8 Quad (that's 32 processors).
But the hard disk is absolutely insufficient. Best possible configuration is 576GiB which is by no means sufficient for a normal simulation in Physics.

I wrote a core complete review (in spanish) at my blog in http://denvite.blogspot.com/2008/07/maravilloso-sunfire.html

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