Introduced in September of 2003 as the unofficial replacement for the Sun Blade 2000, the Sun Blade 2500 workstation uses one or two of the 1.28GHz UltraSPARC IIIi processors and offers high-performance 64-bit computing.
The Sun Blade 2500 Red workstation is equipped with a rich set of workstation features, including support for 8 GB of DDR memory, up to two internal 36GB or 73GB Ultra-320 SCSI hard drives (operating at Ultra 160 spec), five PCI slots, and support for high-performance graphics such as the Sun XVR-100, Sun XVR-500, Sun XVR-600, and Sun XVR-1200 graphics accelerators. The Sun Blade 2500 Red workstation also offers built-in USB 1.1, USB 2.0 and IEEE 1394a FireWire ports and on-board Gigabit Ethernet (10/100/1000Base-T).
The Sun Blade 2500 Red workstation was replaced by the Sun Blade 2500 Silver workstation in February of 2005 and EOL'd (end-of-lifed) in August of 2005. The Sun Blade 2500 Red workstation remains popular because it was part of the last generation of Sun workstations that are capable of running Solaris 8.
Sun | Sun Blade 2500 Red Workstation
| Processor: | Up to two 1.28-GHz or 1.6-GHz UltraSPARC IIIi processor |
| Cache: | 1 MB Level 2 integrated on die |
| Main memory: | Up to 16 GB of registered DDR PC2100 ECC memory: 4 DIMM slots supporting 256-MB, 512-MB, 1-GB, and 2-GB DIMMs (memory DIMM installation required in pairs) |
| Disk drives: | Up to two 146-GB, 10K RPM, Ultra SCSI internal hard drives |
| Network: | 10/100/1000-Mbps (Gigabit) Base-T Ethernet port |
| I/O: | Three USB 2.0 ports, four USB 1.1/1.0 ports, two 1394a (Firewire) ports |
| Serial: | Two RS-232C/RS-423 (DB-9) ports |
| Parallel: | One D-Sub 9-pin connector, IEEE 1284 (bidirectional) |
| Audio I/O: | One line in, one line out One microphone in, one speaker out |
| Expansion bus: | Five full length PCI slots: one at 64-bit/66 MHz two at 64-bit/33 MHz two at 32-bit/33 MHz |
| Graphics: | The Sun Blade 2500 workstation supports up to three Sun XVR-100, XVR-500 or XVR-600 graphics accelerators, or up to two Sun XVR-1200 graphics accelerators |
