Fujitsu produces inoffensive, very PC server

REMEMBER THAT CLASSIC John Wayne film, The Quiet Man? Rubbish wasn't it? I don't know which was more insulting: John Wayne's oir-ish accent, or the stereotypical depiction of the Irish as brawling boozing simpletons.

Well, nobody could accuse Fujitsu of being offensive or un PC. The firm's just invented one of the most unobtrusive PC servers ever. Until the next one.

Within the month, Fujitsu will begin selling a PC server that produces just 27 decibels of noise when running, making it one of the quietest in the world.

The new Primergy Econel 100 is reportedly the first server made by a major manufacturer to be quieter than 30 decibels.

Developed by Fujitsu Siemens, it's powered by an Intel Pentium D dual-core chip and comes with two hard disk drives. It writes data to both hard drives to prevent information loss in the event of a crash.

In a bid to keep the price down, Fujitsu says it used cheap (sorry less expensive) components. The hard disks, for example. But who cares, it'll be 20 per cent cheaper and five decibels quieter than anything they've done so far. They're so desperate to push it they're going to discount it by up to 37 per cenr, according to nikkei.net.

As John Wayne might have said, it's not going to hit the market... It's not gonna hit the market... Thur hell it's not. µ