Comments on: How to completely ruin a great piece of server kit (regarding the Sun X4200 M2)

By: Kelogrited

Kelogrited — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 08:34:36 +0000

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By: Marmyshkan

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By: brian gupta

brian gupta — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 21:39:25 +0000

I’ve heard good things about the rackspace Opteron boxes. Anyone have experience with them to comment further?

By: TimC

TimC — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 01:40:35 +0000

@Brian

There’s more to buying a server than the initial price and hardware…

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 04:54:23 +0000

After looking at Silicon Mechanices product offering, I’m frankly suprised Joyent doesn’t go with them. There prices are incredible.

Take this 1U Intel server as an example:

http://www.siliconmechanics.com/i5992/intel-dual-core-server.php

I can put 2 Quad Core, 64 MB RAM (16 DIMMs) and 4 hot swappable disks in this single 1U (yes, 1U) for dirt cheap.

By the way Mark, it does include the Intel GigE for network.

By: Tom S

Tom S — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 01:38:34 +0000

It is just bait-and-switch. As soon, as you get sufficient mindshare, go to third-tier components.

I don’t think Sun has been in the x86 business long enough. They think they can maintain their reputation as x86 server darlings (and their x86 business has been a financial bright spot at Sun), by going third tier (or lower in the case Nvidia).

Dell and IBM have been in the business long enough to know you can’t start calling collections of assorted desktop components servers. And Sun will learn their lesson too.

By: TimC

TimC — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 20:36:46 +0000

@mark mayo: if they’re still selling the other boxes, why can’t you get them? Out of stock or?

I know they’re definitely still available for order:

http://tinyurl.com/29yelt

By: Jacob

Jacob — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 19:26:22 +0000

Is it possible that Jonathan Schwartz’s was referring to Joyent in his blog today? Excerpt, “[Jonathan] spent a good portion of a weekend a few weeks ago with a customer that was having a quality problem.” http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/what_service_means_to_me

By: Frank

Frank — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 18:02:40 +0000

Thanks for the Silicon Mechanics link. I might have to buy a few servers from them.

They have fabulous configuration options for 1U (16 DIMM, 4 hot-swappable drives) rackmounts and dirt cheap prices.

By: Mark Mayo

Mark Mayo — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 10:49:18 +0000

TimC: We wanted to get the same x4100s we’ve always ordered, but we couldn’t get them. In fact, the only “4000 series” galaxy we could get was the x4200 M2. That’s how we ended up with them.