Sun Fire X4540 Storage System
When extreme data access speeds are required at a very low price, the Sun Fire X4540 storage server is the correct choice.
*Prices starting at $
Specifications
The Sun Fire X4540 storage system has eight cores of AMD Opteron processing and 48TB of storage in a small 4U server. Sun claims that this is twice the capacity in half the space at half the cost of the competition! With the Shanghai processor in the system, it boasts a 20% boost in data throughput rate.
Performance
The Sun Fire X4540 storage system gives you the power of two Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors rather than two dual core processors. It quadruples the memory to 64GB. And it triples the system I/O bandwidth.
Details
- Dual Six-Core AMD Opteron processors
- 48 integrated SATA disk drives onboard
- Scales from 12TB to 48TB in a 4U rack space
- Highest throughput rates (2.0GB/s from disks to network, 3.0GB/s to memory)
- Twice as compact and half the cost of competing systems
Applications Include:
- HPC/Grid storage cluster
- Disk backup/restore
- Virtual tape library
- Video surveillance
- Data warehousing/Business Intelligence