Storage is a bit weak #
Posted Saturday 19th January 2008 01:32 GMT
With 1TB SATA disks on the market, surely the unit can support those?
Posted Saturday 19th January 2008 01:32 GMT
With 1TB SATA disks on the market, surely the unit can support those?
Posted Saturday 19th January 2008 17:16 GMT
So much a Fujitsu Rx600S4
Or is it the other way round????
Posted Saturday 19th January 2008 17:16 GMT
Not with 2.5" drive bays it can't
Posted Saturday 19th January 2008 17:16 GMT
it only supports 2.5" drives and TB drives are only available in 3.25"
Posted Saturday 19th January 2008 17:16 GMT
I'd imagine that if you were buying one of these, you'd have a separate storage solution,
Posted Saturday 19th January 2008 17:16 GMT
The C4108 uses 2.5" drives, thus the lower capacity.
All their other 4 way servers support 2 TB + (SATA)
But also interestingly, all their other 4 way servers are running Opterons.
Maybe the higher heat from the Xeons makes for bigger cooling gear thus less space for drives ? Available power could be an issue too.
http://www.rackable.com/products/c4way.aspx?action=3&nid=servers_2
Posted Saturday 19th January 2008 17:16 GMT
I do believe that its 1 TB/drive times 8 drives.
Posted Saturday 19th January 2008 17:16 GMT
Surely with a box like this you'd only use local storage for OS and bung in some HBAs and grab all of the rest of your storage off of a NetApp\EMC\Whatever SAN
Posted Saturday 19th January 2008 19:37 GMT
This is just an Intel S7000FCUR server platform and there are dozens, if not hundreds of companies world wide selling the exact same animal. All Rackable appears to have done is give it a part number. That must have them weeks of development, coming up with a combination of five letters and numbers.
http://www.intel.com/design/servers/platforms/S7000FC4UR/index.htm
Posted Sunday 20th January 2008 23:59 GMT
That way I can have the server designed the way I want it, not the way they think I want it.