Sun Microsystems Trumps Competition With New Flash SSD Product Line

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[mnehring]

Sun Ahead of Emerging Trend: 2008 Expected to be Tipping Point Year for Solid State Disk (SSD) "Flash" Evolution From Consumer Electronics Into Enterprise IT

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ:JAVA - News) today announced it is preparing to introduce new Sun solid state disks (SSD) to the market that will give customers greater application performance, massive scale and value through the integration of the Solaris(TM) Operating System (OS), Solaris ZFS(TM) and other open source technologies. Sun is already shipping Solaris ZFS software optimized for SSD technologies through the OpenSolaris(TM) community and is the first major systems vendor to add an end-to-end Flash-based disk product line to its portfolio, leapfrogging competitors and giving customers 3x better performance at one-fifth the energy consumption of traditional spinning disk offerings.

[mnehring]

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[econjack]

When I bought my first hard drive in the early 80’s from IBM, the 5 megabyte drive cost $1500, or $300,000 per gigabyte. I recently bought a 4G flash drive for $10, or $2.50/G. Hmmm, no moving parts to wear out, no latency...seems like an obvious move. Indeed, some laptops already have 64G flash drives available.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Let me know when someone develops a robust OS boot-from-flash.

[Psycho_Bunny]

This is just a hyped-up press release. Sun is behind the times as regards to SSDs. I’ve been using them in embedded systems for over a year. They’re expensive but the price is dropping, and they’re reliable, low energy and low heat.

[null and void]

Let me know when someone develops a robust OS boot-from-flash.

I'm sure Microsoft is working on it right this minute...

[Calvinist_Dark_Lord]

Here’s one for you.

[ShadowAce]

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[shorty_harris]

Don't know if it's considered 'robust', but my little Asus EeePC has a 4G SSD with a Xandros based linux OS installed on it. It runs fine...boots up in about 20 seconds, and shuts down in about 9 seconds.

I also bought an 8G SD card (I can boot the EeePC from that) and installed Mandriva on it. It's a complete OS, even with the Compiz 3D desktop. Pretty amazing...

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

They’re expensive but the price is dropping, and they’re reliable, low energy and low heat.

Who makes them, and how many write cycles are they worth?

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Here is a link :

http://www.asianproducts.com/product_8/8g-sd-card_P11825013156439888.htm

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Samsung has a 3.5 inch formfactor for sale:

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[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

From Newegg:

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• Random Access - Read: 80MB/s
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• MTBF: 2,000,000 hours
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[fr_freak]

Let me know when someone develops a robust OS boot-from-flash.

I'm sure Microsoft is working on it right this minute...

They've almost got one ready. It will be ready for market as soon as they figure out how to increase the boot time from 3 seconds to 5 minutes.

[Paladin2]

I have numerous legacy systems that would benefit from SSD's. When the price drops a little more I'll buy many. For word processing, a 486 is more than adequate.

(UPS is delivering a 320 stream processor graphics card today for high F@H throughput/ point/day output).