Sun Microsystems Sun Fire X4170 review
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Verdict
A rack server for the most demanding applications, the Sun Fire X4170 delivers a cracking specification
Review Date: 29 Sep 2009
Reviewed By: Dave Mitchell
Price when reviewed: £5,044 (£5,801 inc VAT)
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| Details | |
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| Part Code | Sun Fire X4170 |
| Review Date | 29 Sep 2009 |
| Price ex VAT | £5,044 |
| Warranty | |
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| Warranty | 3yr on-site next business day |
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| Physical | |
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| Server format | Rack |
| Server configuration | 1U desktop/rack chassis |
| Processor | |
|---|---|
| CPU family | Intel Xeon |
| CPU nominal frequency | 2.93GHz |
| Processors supplied | 2 |
| CPU socket count | 2 |
| Memory | |
|---|---|
| RAM capacity | 144GB |
| Memory type | DDR3 |
| Storage | |
|---|---|
| Hard disk configuration | 4 x 146GB Seagate Savvio 10K.2 SFF SAS hard 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 | 760W |
| Noise and power | |
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| Idle power consumption | 182W |
| Peak power consumption | 355W |
| Software | |
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| OS family | None |
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User comments
Typo
The first paragraph change AMD-based to Intel-based.
By carlos on 30 Sep 2009 
Intel base Server
Please note this is an Intel based server not AMD. Please change this in the article.
By sarag on 30 Sep 2009
SUN's ILOM is for Free
If you compare the standard ILOM of the DELL and SUN rackservers then the SUN has better offerings. Most ILOM's don't offer viewing the whole bootproces over ILOM, nor do they offer GUI transfers.
By Sun_doe on 19 Oct 2009
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