EU Sun Thumper - on Ebay, £595 best offer available

[ecosse]

Once upon a time this was probably my dream server. Now I can't justify it given the amount of high bay storage servers I already have. High storage low performance ZFS box?

SUN Fire X4500 2 x 2.8Ghz 16GB 48 x 500GB SATA Drives 24TB

SUN Fire X4500 48 Bay Storage Server
2 x AMD 2.8Ghz processors
16GB memory
48 x 500GB SATA Drives
Power Supply
RM Kit

 

[amsteel]

Will it take 2Tb or 3TB sata HDD?

 

[ecosse]

I had a quick Google/bing at the time. Sun's ZFS file system on Solaris () says the hardware supports 3tb drives. I didn't look any further though in case I ended up buying the thing!

 

[whitey]

We had one of these on NCLA (eval) from SUN back in the day in a lab I ran. Was a beast for the time, I think a colleague of mine now has it at his house since the lab/site shutdown and no one (vendor included) wanted it back.

 

[amsteel]

I had a quick Google/bing at the time. Sun's ZFS file system on Solaris () says the hardware supports 3tb drives. I didn't look any further though in case I ended up buying the thing!

In that case, I should stop checking this thread too.