Sun Fire X2270 - Expert Reviews

The new Sun Fire X2270 and Sun Fire X4270 servers are the fastest x64 servers Sun has ever produced.

Good value, good performance

Single power supply, only a pair of NICs

The Sun Fire X2270 is an impressive entry into the Nehalem-based server market. Sun's x64-based hardware has been superlative for the past few years, and these new servers are the latest in a line of solid server platforms. Leveraging the surprising ...

The X2270 delivers a good rack-based specification centred round Intel's new 5500 processors but power consumption for a 1U HPC node is high.