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If Sun Microsystems wants to make any significant headway with its worldwide server sales it has to take on the likes of Dell and HP at the lower end of this market. That means delivering a solid range of standard Intel and AMD based rack and pedestal systems at affordable prices and with a good range of features. In this exclusive review we take a look at the new Sun Fire X4140 rack server and see whether it has what it takes to take them on.

This 1U system certainly delivers a good specification for the price as this includes AMD’s latest quad-core ‘Shanghai’ Opterons. Sun is only the second server vendor to supply these processors to us so far – the first being Boston with its remarkable 3000GP. We’ve noticed Dell and HP being very slow to respond to requests for server review samples with these new processors.

The smaller 2.5in. SFF hard disks are rapidly becoming the drive of choice for low profile rack servers and the X4140 has room for no less than eight across its front panel. HP’s ProLiant DL365 G5 only has room for six internal SFF drives whilst Dell’s PowerEdge SC1435 can’t manage more than a pair of 3.5in. drives.

An interesting review talking about the Sun X4140 server, it’s always good to see what people think of the different servers, do check it out.

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