23.4375 terabytes in a box (Sun Fire X4500)
July 25, 2007A box arrived from Sun the other day. We slid back the cover, and were amazed to see 48 - 500 Gig drives all nicely sitting in their little hot-swap bays. The Sun Fire X4500 box is pretty cool - 4 rack-units high, with dual core AMD CPU’s, 4 gigabit Ethernet ports, lots of slots, and LOTS OF DISK STORAGE. All for $1.5 per gig.
Apparently, this box is pretty popular with the porn sites.
Me, I’m thinking I could upload about 6.3 million MP3’s, or quite a lot of videos…
Or, I guess we could hold out for the 48 terabyte version…
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