Wednesday, October 25, 2006

Sun's Little Black Box is not cool.

Seriously, what the hell are the engineers at Sun thinking putting a datacenter in a black box? The systems are really sweet and they apparently spent all kinds of money optimising the power consumption and cooling systems to provide "20% less energy consumption". So what the hell were they thinking painting it black? They have all these nice pictures of the thing sitting out in remote and sunny locations, yet they paint the thing the most thermally stupid color possible. Why didn't they make it a "White Box" and save their customers another 20% on cooling? Hopefully this is just a marketing gimmick and you'll be able to order them in white or silver to minimize solar heating effects. Otherwise, I have a feeling this Sun is going to be really hot.