#Sun fire x4150 indicator full#

Each 2.8-GHz processor in the machine uses 80 watts. The X4150 we tested is rated at 319 watts of power usage when idle and 417 watts when busy, which is consistent with what we saw in the lab. The seven sets of fan modules also are easily hot swappable via an innovative top lid near the front, which is accessible when you slide the computer forward on its rails.

#Sun fire x4150 indicator full#

The front of the machine is full it features up to eight 2.5-inch hard drives.

The chassis is easy to use and well designed. Typically, 1U servers are tight, awkward, and difficult to work with, but not the Sun Fire X4150. Thus, a rack full of the units as we tested would give you a whopping 320 processor cores, 320 hot-swappable hard drives, 640 DIMM slots, 120 PCI-E slots, and 160 Gigabit Ethernet connections. To put it in perspective, a standard rack can hold as many as 40 of these servers. Sun crams a lot of gear into this 1U device. On the downside, the Java-based remote console is clunky and requires Java Web Start, which is part of the standard Sun Java Runtime Environment. In addition, the management and service processor makes it an ideal virtualization platform. Despite all this capacity, the Sun Fire X4150 sips, and doesn't guzzle, electricity. The 1U server we tested came packed with dual 2.8-GHz quad-core Intel Harpertown processors, 16 dual in-line memory module (DIMM) slots, three PCI-E slots, and four Intel Gigabit Ethernet network interface cards.