Storage Technology Research Library

This paper is intended for executives and managers and tells how Sun servers equipped with Flash-enabled solid-state drives (SSDs) offers dramatic improvements to HPC, Web 2.0, and data center application performance. In many environments today, high performance CPUs must wait while data is delivered from the storage subsystem — even the fastest hard disk drives are hundreds of times slower than modern servers. Sun servers equipped with SSDs can be configured to use fewer HDDs to deliver the same storage I/O performance, resulting in lower capital and operating expenses (CapEx and OpEx).