Sun Launches New Storage System – Sun 7310
May 31, 2009 by Sanjay · Leave a Comment
Sun Storage 7310
Santa Clara, California-headquartered Sun Microsystems Inc has announced the launch of a new storage system.
Christened “Storage 7310″, the new system is priced starting from USD 40,165. Measuring about 1.8 inches (H) by about 17 inches (W) by about 28 inches (D), the device weighs approx 18.5 kilograms.
7310 has two quad-core AMD Opteron processors, with single controller or dual controller (optional), and a main memory of 64 Gb per controller. The system has a Read Flash Accelerator or up to 600 Gb per controller. Four GbE ports interface the system with the rest of the computing equipment. There are three internal Low Profile PCIe slots. For network connectivity, the system provides dual GigE UTP and MMF, Quad gigabit Ethernet UTP and dual 10 GigE Fiber XFP.
It is the storage capacity that is its most important feature; for the system offers 96 TB space, with 1TB 7,200 rpm SATA disks. The file system is Sun’s own ZFS, Ver 2009.Q2. Data compression at four levels is made available to the system administrator. Data reliability and integrity has been sought to be ensured through RAID 5 and 6. 7310 can be remotely managed through SNMP v2/v3. 
