The Sun Flash Accelerator F20 PCIe Card is a Flash PCIe card with an integrated disk controller that increases server storage I/O and application performance. Targeted at I/O intensive applications, such as databases with 4K block aligned workloads, the Sun Flash Accelerator delivers I/O performance equaling that of up to 300 disk drives, Sun reports.
A database study comparing the performance of storage architectures using Sun Storage F5100 Flash Array and storage architecture based only on traditional hard disks was recently conducted, and its results presented by Chang Shu. Both atomic queries such as sorts / joins, and advanced queries containing complex business logic were tested in order to observe the performance gains in using F5100 Flash Array.
Sun Fire X4170, X4270 and X4275 are part of Sun's new family of servers based on the Intel Xeon 5500 series processors. These new servers are best suited for large enterprises as well as for sophisticated small and medium businesses (SMB).
The Sun Storage 7310 is the newest addition to Sun's Unified Storage Family. This comprehensive, Flash-powered storage system leverages Hybrid Storage Pool capabilities for simplicity and analytic insight. It is available starting at $40,140 (US list). Fishworks Engineer Adam Leventhal describes the Sun Storage 7310 as "a scalable system from 12TB with a single half-populated J4400 JBOD up to 96TB with 4 JBODs. ... The base configuration includes a single quad-core CPU, 16GB of DRAM, a SAS HBA, and two available PCIe slots for NICs, backup cards, or the Fishworks cluster card."
32GB solid state drives (SSDs) are now available for the Sun Fire X4150 and X4450 servers, while a new 300GB SAS disk option is now offered and supported in the Sun Fire X4150, X4250, and X4450 servers. A single SSD delivers the IOPS of 100 hard disk drives while it consumes less than 1/500 the power of hard disk drives (assuming same random I/O performance). However, hard disk drives still hold the lead in raw capacity. Sun gives its customers the choice.
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