Designer Andy Bechtolsheim demonstrates how each of the Sun Fire x4500s 48 storage drives can easily be hot-swapped by simply pulling it out of the rack. No wires involved; the drives plug in to a passive backplane in the chassis.
2Sun servers – Sun Fire x4500 Overview
Bechtolsheim shows an overall view under the hood of the new Sun Fire x4500 new storage server.
3Sun servers – Sun Fire x4500
Bechtolsheim shows the innards of the Sun Fire x4500 storage server, which can hold 24 terabytes of data.
4Sun servers – Sun Blade 8000 blade server
Bechtolsheim inserts one of 10 blades into the Sun Blade 8000 blade server.
5Sun servers – Three Sun servers
Bechtolsheim shows off all three of Suns new servers. Left to right: Sun Fire x4500 Storage Server; Sun Blade 8000 blade server, and the Sun Fire x4600 4- to 16-Way X64 rackmount server.
6Sun servers – Sun servers
The three servers stand alone: Left to right: Sun Fire x4500 Storage Server; Sun Blade 8000 blade server, and the Sun Fire x4600 4- to 16-Way X64 rackmount server.
7Sun servers – Sun Fire x4600
Bechtolsheim removes one of the four fans from the Sun Fire x4600 4- to 16-Way X64 rackmount server.
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