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Sun Adding Flash Storage to Most of Its Servers

Posted by timothy on from the add-it-to-everything-please dept.

BobB-nw writes "Sun will release a 32GB flash storage drive this year and make flash storage an option for nearly every server the vendor produces, Sun officials are announcing Wednesday. Like EMC, Sun is predicting big things for flash. While flash storage is far more expensive than disk on a per-gigabyte basis, Sun argues that flash is cheaper for high-performance applications that rely on fast I/O Operations Per Second speeds."

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  1. big deal by larry+bagina · · Score: 4, Funny

    Most computers come with flash preloaded. I don't know why you'd be browsing the web or watching videos/web comics/ads/etc on a server computer. Maybe they're trying to dumb diwn ti compete with Windows Server 2008.

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    These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.

    1. Re:big deal by GuyverDH · · Score: 4, Funny

      Please.... Please.... Please.... Tell me you were joking....

      I can usually read into the comment if someone is joking or not... but this one... I dunno... Could go either way....

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  2. Re:We are going to have two layers of storage by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    when you have servers that stays up for months I'm a Windows admin, you insensitive clod!