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Seems like Sun is really kicking butt lately. A year ago I wouldn't have believed it, but that just shows again how little I know. First they released a sub $1000 SunFire X2100 1U server that looks really sweet. And now plans have been revealed for a massive storage monster called Thumper:
The 4U high system will hold two dual-core Opterons and support up to 16GB of memory. A more unique part of the server will be Sun's use of 48 SATA drives.Holy cow. And the key to utilizing all that storage is a new filesystem, ZFS, that will be included in Solaris 10. ZFS sounds *really* amazing. The sort of thing that might make someone consider some really expensive Sun gear. Only now their gear isn't expensive any more. Lookin' good Sun.
Turns out you can just plug an HFS+ formatted drive into the server and it will recognize it. That's with CentOS 4.2 on the standard 2.6 kernel. I wouldn't have thought that would work. I should always remember to try the easy way first. You know, just in case.
Anyway, transferring 100 GBs over USB is not so much fun. Not sure if it's USB 1 or 2. Might have to sleep with the amazingly loud server fans on tonight which will be interesting to say the least.
But it does feel good to be loading it up at last.