The Sun Fire T1000 Server on loan from Sun in the US arrived just a couple of weeks ago, but its taken me a while to find the time to set up the machine and start some testing.

While the T2000 I tested a couple of months ago was a general purpose server, the T1000 is designed more as a computer node, where the primary purpose is to make use of the power of the T1 CPU, rather than to provide storage. That means it supports only two SATA disks, and is therefore in a much smaller package, at 1U high and about 2/3rds the depth of the T2000.