Inside, however, there's just one 420W power supply, and this provides the only cooling fan, although it's large and cooling wasn't a problem while we were testing the system. In addition to this you get miniature fans on the processors themselves, which are on a separate processor board plugged into a special slot on the motherboard, itself a fairly conventional device built around an Intel 440FX PCIset. The processor on the review system was a 300MHz Pentium II, with 512KB of ECC-protected Level 2 cache built into the module itself. There's a lot packed onto the Fujitsu motherboard, starting with the usual serial and parallel interfaces and a couple of USB ports. These can be cabled to the internal drive cage to provide either one or two SCSI channels, which makes duplexing of the drives very easy.
RAID is a similarly easy option to implement.
The disks used are manufactured by Fujitsu, available in a range of capacities, the company supplying us with a set of three 2GB Ultra SCSI drives for our tests. These plug into the drive bays using special carriers, which are supplied as standard for all eight bays, regardless of the number of drives specified. The motherboard also incorporates sensors for temperature, voltage and fan activity, as well as support for the intrusion-detector switch on the casing. These can all be monitored and managed locally using the SNMP management software supplied, with a Web-based management tool also provided as standard. The Fujitsu TeamServer G780i is a very good choice for anyone looking to support a medium-sized workgroup.