[OpenIndiana-discuss] Sun Fire

[Christopher Chan]

Wow, just when I was looking for a new box to add too. I already have 
the older 36 drive 4U box but they have managed to double the capacity 
in 4U of space in less than five years and with 3.5" drives too?

Have you tried this Saso? Illumos runs on that board and with the 
onboard SAS controller? Man, I want to look at the insides and see how 
they managed to turn those bays into double disk bays.



On Saturday, June 22, 2013 06:39 PM, Saso Kiselkov wrote:
> On 22/06/2013 10:24, Udo Grabowski (IMK) wrote:
>> I can only recommend the X4540, these are the best workhorses
>> I've ever seen, and it's a pity that there's no useful successor
>> for that price/capacity ratio that runs under OI/illumOS.
> Yeah, they were too good value for money, so Oracle decided we can't
> have 'em. As for "successor", there may not any piece in the current
> Sun/Oracle hardware lineup that does it, but there are boxes from other
> vendors, particularly SuperMicro, that do a very good job of carrying
> the torch forward from the X4540. See for instance:
> http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/4u/6047/ssg-6047r-e1r72l.cfm
> 2 Xeon E5-2600 CPUs, up to 512 GB of DRAM, 72x 3.5'' SAS drives,
> built-in LSI SAS 2308 controller, etc. Sure it's a bit more work to get
> it going, but in the end you get a lot of bang for your buck.
>
> Cheers,