Sun Launches Low Power Flash Drives For Servers

According to researches its is reported that between 2000 and 2005 the energy used by data servers are doubled to 123 billion kWh. At this point Sun introduced their Solid State Drive for storing data. Since SSDs(Solid State Drives) have no moving parts much energy can be saved. Also this is open source.

Now a days Solid State Drives are not comonly used for mass data storage , But the trend s coming to play in the future. Intel and Transcend also launched their first SSD last months. Sun states that by moving to Solid State Drive huge amount of energy can be saved due to lack of any mechanical parts in it, also since Sun’s SSDs are open source which will reduce 75% of cost when compared to currently used server systems.

There are  three basic models Sun launched.

• Sun Storage 7110: Ultra compact model with two terabytes (TB) of storage;
• Sun Storage 7210: Mid-range storage featuring up to 48 TB of storage capacity in a highly dense four unit form factor; includes support for write-optimized solid state disks (SSDs) that leverage Sun’s unique Flash Hybrid Storage Pool technology;
• Sun Storage 7410: Highly configurable storage system with support for up to a half petabyte (PB) of capacity that includes support for read and write optimized SSDs and Sun’s unique Flash Hybrid Storage Pool technology; These systems are also available in clustered configurations for added high availability.