Re: Power supply efficiency on older model Sun equipment

Hmmm,

While the X series line of Sun Servers obviously has a different 
processor architecture than the sparc based line they are every bit sun 
machines.  They are constructed with high quality components and have a 
level of innovation seen nowhere else in the x86 market. 

Take for example the X4500 with its 48TB drive capacity in a 4U rack 
unit with its modular system board and processor tray.  A system you 
could do a system board replacement without taking out of the rack and 
within 2 minutes. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zQ5RLAyA7w

Robert Chase


D G Teed wrote:
> It is partly an interest in low power computing which has
> helped to fuel my interest in the Intel solution.  The AMD
> chipset+CPU is 8 watts leaner than Atom, but isn't available yet or
> I would have gone that way.  Perhaps Sun will offer an AMD
> based solution like this?  But I've never regarded
> x86 Suns as true Suns.
>