Re: sun blade 1000 donation

Greg Smith wrote:
> On Thu, 28 May 2009, Andy Colson wrote:
>
>> Yeah, when it shipped I think it was about 75 pounds. It is a tower,
>> yes, and an impressively large box (my experience with servers is
>> limited, this is the first I've ever gotten to play with, so it may
>> not be out of the ordinary).
>
> To give you a better idea of the scale people were thinking with your
> original comment, the last Sun server I installed was 170 pounds and you
> had to provision a dedicated power outlet for it. The Blade 1000 would
> be considered a medium sized server. A small server is one that fits in
> 1 to 3 rack units.
>
> --
> * Greg Smith gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD

Sweet. That sounds fun to play on. So yeah, as I was saying before,
its a 75lb box, nothing huge.. ya know... average... :-)

-Andy