Sun To Include SSDs On Server Motherboards 79
snydeq writes "Sun has announced plans to integrate solid-state drives onto server motherboards to provide faster data access for I/O intensive applications. For now, the company is offering SSDs that customers can slide into their storage bays, but long term, Sun will locate SSDs closer to the server CPUs to cut the bottleneck that occurs when powerful, multicore CPUs have to wait for data to be delivered from hard drives, according to the company. The move could mark a change in how Sun servers are designed going forward, including the possibility of servers that have no hard drive, relying entirely on SSDs."
Re:But at what cost? (Score:2, Funny)
You're helping keep Sun from going bankrupt. Think of it as a charitable donation.
Re:But at what cost? (Score:5, Funny)
Given that Sun design their boxes around their own custom hardware (Niagra, Sparc etc) who exactly are you buying the same specification from?
Re:Ram drives suddenly new again? (Score:2, Funny)
Given your attitude, I bet you are some sort of curmudgeon. I'm not, and my id is half again lower than yours. It's almost as if it is a meaningless number.
Re:Ram drives suddenly new again? (Score:4, Funny)
> I don't think they make 2-million-terabyte DDR3 sticks, yet...
But you know of someone using that much swap?