For the past few months I’ve had the Sun X4150 on a long term test and I’ve been throwing a wide range of different applications and problems at it to see what breaks.
As I’ve mentioned before, my test unit has two quad core Xeon CPUs, 16GB of RAM and four 76GB SAS drives, and it saps about the same amount of power as a T1000, that is, in terms of the electrical power required to run the machine. But it is, in fact, a significantly more capable machine in some respects, albeit for a different target audience and range of applications.