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Sun Microsystems Sun Fire X4140 in Servers
Verdict
The Sun Fire X4140 is one classy 1U rack server that has more of everything than the competition and is very competitively priced
Review Date: 4 Mar 2009
Price when reviewed: £3,500 (£4,025 inc VAT)
Overall Rating
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| Details | |
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| Part Code | X4140 |
| Review Date | 4 Mar 2009 |
| Price ex VAT | £3,500 |
| Warranty | |
|---|---|
| Warranty final | 3yr on-site next business day |
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| Physical | |
|---|---|
| Server format | Rack |
| Server configuration | 1U |
| Processor | |
|---|---|
| CPU family | AMD Opteron |
| CPU nominal frequency | 2.70GHz |
| Processors supplied | 2 |
| CPU socket count | 2 |
| Memory | |
|---|---|
| RAM capacity | 128GB |
| Memory type | DDR2 |
| Storage | |
|---|---|
| Hard disk configuration | 4 x 146GB Seagate Savvio 10K.2 SFF SAS disks in hot-swap carriers |
| Total hard disk capacity | 584 |
| RAID module | Adaptec PCI-E RAID controller |
| RAID levels supported | 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, 60, JBOD |
| Networking | |
|---|---|
| Gigabit LAN ports | 4 |
| ILO? |
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| Motherboard | |
|---|---|
| Conventional PCI slots total | 0 |
| PCI-E x16 slots total | 1 |
| PCI-E x8 slots total | 2 |
| PCI-E x4 slots total | 0 |
| PCI-E x1 slots total | 0 |
| Power supply | |
|---|---|
| Power supply rating | 650W |
| Noise and power | |
|---|---|
| Idle power consumption | 200W |
| Peak power consumption | 305W |
| Software | |
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| OS family | None |
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