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Sun’s new Xeon 5500 lineup is pretty impressive, starting with an unusual low-cost 1U server (the Sun Fire X2270) with a restricted specification for those on a budget . Higher up the scale comes a more configurable up-market 1U offering (the X4170) aimed, primarily, at HPC buyers. For this review we’re concentrating on the 2U space where Sun, again, has two models to choose from.

Actually, that’s a little misleading as the Sun Fire X4270 and X4275 are essentially the same server, with exactly the same chassis, identical motherboards, processor and memory options. The only real difference is in the storage: the X4270 has sixteen 2.5in. hot-swap drive bays, whereas the X4275 is aimed at customers looking for greater capacity, offering twelve 3.5in. drive bays and a choice of drives in capacities up to 2TB per spindle. SATA, SAS and SSD storage can be specified for both configurations (SSD is limited to just 32GB per drive), with an LSI-derived RAID controller included in the spec as standard.

An interesting article talking about Sun’s new servers using the new Intel Xeon 5500 processors, it’s always great to see what people think, both servers would be ideal for virtualization or in a hpc solution.

Check out this review of Sun’s

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