back to article Multi-coring FAS6200 processors

NetApp is being coy about the processors in its FAS6200 arrays, saying only that the 6280 can have 24 cores. However, we have been given a view of the core sauce from someone who should know. The FAS6210 has two 4-core E5520 (2.26GHz) processors per controller, meaning 16 cores in a high-availability mode. These would be ' …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
    Grenade

    Not a Low Power Demon Yet then!

    Not a Low Power Demon Yet then! ;)

    perhaps they should have made and used many super low power ARM Arm Cortex Quad with lots of extra NEON 128bit SIMD block's and related IP inside.

  2. NoSh*tSherlock!
    WTF?

    Wood - Trees?

    It's driving 1200 disks and you worry about the power consumption of the CPU?

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