On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 12:51 AM, Richard Elling <richard.ell...@gmail.com> wrote: > Buried in the announcements last week from Sun is the Sun Flash Module. > http://www.sun.com/storage/flash/module.jsp > > I wanted to bring this up on this forum because it represents an interesting > way to add SSD technology to a system design. The new Sun Blade X6275 > has slots for these SSDs and I expect to see future designs follow suit. > > Brief specifications: > SO-DIMM form factor (very small) > 64 MByte DRAM buffers > 24 GBytes available space > Enterprise class > SATA interface > > I think this development is significant for several reasons. > > 1. It represents the beginning of the end for 5.25", 3.5", 2.5", and 1.8" > disk form factors. > > 2. You can now build an SSD disk array into a wide variety of form factors > which would be impossible to do with spinning media. > > 3. The (common) requirement for mirrored boot disks should prove > obsolete.
Why? Is the possibility of component or path failure and data corruption so close to zero? -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
