The Reg has a very detailed article on the full line of new Opteron-based servers we'll be seeing from Sun next week. Lots of new hardware to go around, with several of the models making strides at differentiating themselves from the competition.

"As we predicted long ago, the x4500 will ship with 48 SATA drives (250-500GB), two Opteron sockets, 10 hot swap fans, two half-height PCI cards, hot-swap power supplies, four Gigabit Ethernet ports and a SATA backplane with the requisite 48 HDD connections."