I don't think a V240 could possibly have more bandwidth.  The T1000's single 
PCI-E x8 slot should be capable of more throughput than all three of a V240's 
PCI-X slots.
 
T1000/T2000
http://www.sun.com/servers/coolthreads/coolthreads_architecture_wp.pdf
http://www.sun.com/processors/whitepapers/JBus_External.pdf
 
Steve
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From: EMC NetWorker discussion on behalf of Yaron Zabary
Sent: Tue 2/27/2007 3:40 PM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: [Networker] Sun T1000 Networker server.



Hello,

    We currently have a Sun 280R running Solaris 9 with four LTO2 drives
and EMC AX150 for disk backup. In the near future we will get four LTO3
drives, so we will probably need to upgrade the server as well. Although
X4100 (or equivalent) is an option hardware-wise, I don't like the OS
choice (Solaris 10, Linux or Windows). I am therefore looking into a
reasonably priced 6-core T1000 server with a PCIe FC HBA to connect into
a Brocade switch that will connect the above hardware.

    My local vendor claims that the T1000 is not a good machine for the
I/O required and suggests the V240 with less compute power, but more I/O
bandwidth.

    Is anyone using the T1000 in similar setup ? Any comments are welcome.

-- Yaron.

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