Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Thu 24th Jul 2008 09:35 UTC, submitted by amjith
Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz has an interesting blog entry about how Sun Microsystems will start introducing Nand Flash with ZFS as an enterprise storage solution by the end of this year. With the price of Flash memory already plummeting this could be an economical alternative to the expensive NAS solutions.
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Well, I found these sentences rather odd:
"Flash is very fast at reading and writing data, like DRAM [...]But unlike either alternative, Flash requires no power to remember data."
Last time I checked RAM was about 100x faster than Flash and HDDs still had higher burst speeds and didn't require power to keep data - only for reads and writes.
I guess he could have said "For the typical use case (lots of small, random writes and reads) Flash is faster and more efficient than HDDs".
Of course, that doesn't sound nearly as snappy