12 Sun Fire X4170, X4270, and X4275 Servers Installation Guide • December 2009
Sun Fire X4270 and X4275 Servers Supported
Components
The following table describes the components and capabilities of the Sun Fire X4270
and X4275 Servers.
TABLE 1-2 Sun Fire X4270 and X4275 Servers Components and Capabilities
Component X4270 and X4275 Servers
CPU One or two quad-core processors with three integrated DDR3 memory controllers per
processor. The following CPU sizes are supported:
• 2.26 GHz/80 Watts
• 2.40 GHz/60 Watts
• 2.53 GHz/80 Watts
• 2.93 GHz/95 Watts
Memory Nine DDR3 DIMMs per processor for a maximum of 18 DDR3 DIMMs and a maximum
of 144 GB of memory
Storage devices Storage drives supported by the Sun Fire X4270 and X4275 Servers with the LSI 3081E
SAS RAID controller (required):
• Up to sixteen 2.5-inch SAS/SATA HDDs (only supported on X4270 Server)
• Up to twelve 3.5-inch SAS/SATA HDDs (only supported on X4275 Server)
• DVD-RW drive (only supported on X4270 Server)
• CompactFlash slot (internally accessible)
Storage drives supported by the Sun Fire X4270 and X4275 Servers with Sun
StorageTek SAS RAID controller (required):
• Up to eight 2.5-inch SAS/SATA SDDs (only supported on X4270 Server)
• Up to sixteen 2.5-inch SAS/SATA HDDs (only supported on X4270 Server)
• Up to eight 3.5-inch SAS/SATA SSDs (only supported on X4275 Server)
• Up to twelve 3.5-inch SAS/SATA HDDs (only supported on X4275 Server)
• DVD-RW drive (only supported on X4270 Server)
• CompactFlash slot (internally accessible)
USB ports X4270 Server: Two front, two rear, and one internal
X4275 Server: Two rear and one internal
PCI Express 2.0 I/O
slots
Six x8 low-profile PCIe Gen2 slots or six low-profile PCIe Gen2 (5.0 GT/s) slots
PCI Express I/O
cards
For a list of I/O cards that are customer-orderable options, go to the following web site
and click on the options card link:
• http://www.sun.com/servers/x64/x4170/
• http://www.sun.com/servers/x64/x4270/
• http://www.sun.com/servers/x64/x4275/