30 Jun
2005
30 Jun
'05
5:23 a.m.
Bryan J. Smith b.j.smith@ieee.org wrote:
From: Rodrigo Barbosa rodrigob@suespammers.org
Btw, don't quote me on this one :) I'm only 90% sure of the hotswapping capabilities, and less than 50% sure about the price :)
There _are_ systems with hot-swap CPUs, memory and/or, PCI[-X] slots. They are _not_ commodity and pricey, and require OS-level support.
Sun EXX00 + series running UltraSparc II and above have pretty much hot swapable everything: cpu, memory, disks etc.
And they are cheap on ebay these days (8-24 way 400 Mhz US-II (64-bit), with anywhere from 2-14 GB memory and FC-AL IO etc. EX500).