Bill Broadley wrote:
Andrew Piskorski wrote:
On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 04:56:53PM -0700, Bill Broadley wrote:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10209580-92.html
According to that articel, the pictured dual socket server has two
hard drives, but from the second photo, although the view is obscured
by the UPS battery, it looks like four drives to me, stacked two high.
Or if it's really only two drives, what are they sitting on top of?
I don't see how 4 drives would fit. I believe the drives are on a L bracket,
which is about half as wide as the drives. Note in the enlarged photo you can
see the motherboard between the drives, looks like they left the IDE traces on
the motherboard, but without IDE connectors. Similarly missing are most usb
ports, IDE connectors, audio in/out, etc.
The SATA disks on the picture are Hitachi Deskstar.
I can't read how large.
Our old cluster had the old IBM Deskstar IC35L020,
which failed more often than other disk brands:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitachi_Deskstar
Did the MTBF get better with Hitachi?
Gus Correa
Looks like the only thing gigabyte added was the ability to accept 12V from
the power supply. Definitely a nice layout for front -> back airflow. No
perpendicular dimms or heatsinks.
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