Looks very similar to Sun's X4500. http://www.sun.com/servers/x64/x4500/

This is just another press-release-disguised-as-an-article. The idea, and the best execution, belongs to Sun.

http://www.sun.com/servers/x64/x4500/

Where's your head, El Reg?

This product isn't like the x4500 at all. The x4500 is a server, not a storage array. The hard drive layout might be similar. But the x4500 has just a single motherboard, while the Xyratex has dual RAID controllers only.

It is pretty sad when Register readers can't tell the difference between a storage array and a server. I guess oranges are poorly executed copies of apples.

Not like the X4500 at all? Here's an article hand-waving about the densest storage solution on the market, while the Sun X4500, offering the exact same density for some time now, it pretended not to exist. It's sad when Reg writers (and readers!) can't smell marketing crap a mile away.

People buy the X4500 for storage density, not because there's anything mind-blowing about Sun's first-generation Opteron gear.

Nexsan started producing this design years ago.

www.nexsan.com

Sun and Xyratex did not come up with the original idea.