http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sun-flashfires-record-breaking-storage-performance-will-make-ne/ Engadget Comments for Sun FlashFire's record-breaking storage performance will make network admins giddy http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sun-flashfires-record-breaking-storage-performance-will-make-ne/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sun-flashfires-record-breaking-storage-performance-will-make-ne/Oct 14th 2009 8:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sun-flashfires-record-breaking-storage-performance-will-make-ne/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sun-flashfires-record-breaking-storage-performance-will-make-ne/Oct 14th 2009 10:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sun-flashfires-record-breaking-storage-performance-will-make-ne/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sun-flashfires-record-breaking-storage-performance-will-make-ne/Oct 14th 2009 9:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sun-flashfires-record-breaking-storage-performance-will-make-ne/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sun-flashfires-record-breaking-storage-performance-will-make-ne/Oct 14th 2009 9:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sun-flashfires-record-breaking-storage-performance-will-make-ne/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sun-flashfires-record-breaking-storage-performance-will-make-ne/Oct 14th 2009 9:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sun-flashfires-record-breaking-storage-performance-will-make-ne/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sun-flashfires-record-breaking-storage-performance-will-make-ne/Oct 14th 2009 9:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sun-flashfires-record-breaking-storage-performance-will-make-ne/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sun-flashfires-record-breaking-storage-performance-will-make-ne/
All that aside, the arch is pretty neat. Super capacitors for power instead of batteries -- super fast charge, just enough capacity to flush IO in a power failure. We would have loved to get one of these to test with Lustre -- aside from the minimum of 4 LUNs, these are ideal for Lustre metadata storage. 4k IO, and super-uniform seek times and multipath capable -- who cares about capacity?]]>Oct 14th 2009 2:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sun-flashfires-record-breaking-storage-performance-will-make-ne/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sun-flashfires-record-breaking-storage-performance-will-make-ne/http://www.sun.com/storage/disk_systems/sss/f5100/]]>Oct 14th 2009 2:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sun-flashfires-record-breaking-storage-performance-will-make-ne/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sun-flashfires-record-breaking-storage-performance-will-make-ne/Oct 14th 2009 9:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sun-flashfires-record-breaking-storage-performance-will-make-ne/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sun-flashfires-record-breaking-storage-performance-will-make-ne/Oct 14th 2009 9:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sun-flashfires-record-breaking-storage-performance-will-make-ne/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sun-flashfires-record-breaking-storage-performance-will-make-ne/Oct 14th 2009 9:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sun-flashfires-record-breaking-storage-performance-will-make-ne/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sun-flashfires-record-breaking-storage-performance-will-make-ne/Oct 14th 2009 9:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sun-flashfires-record-breaking-storage-performance-will-make-ne/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sun-flashfires-record-breaking-storage-performance-will-make-ne/Oct 14th 2009 2:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sun-flashfires-record-breaking-storage-performance-will-make-ne/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sun-flashfires-record-breaking-storage-performance-will-make-ne/
the XcelaSAN lets you Accelerate any LUN from your storage array you want, yet keep everything on your existing array.

If you have an EMC Clariion and buy this sun box for your oracle data, you have to move all your Oracle data over to the sun box. If you do this, all your replication and other things the EMC was doing, can no longer be done to the Oracle data.

If you instead get an XcelaSAN and connect it to your CX, you keep everything on your back end SAN, keep your replication etc... AND get a MAJOR performance boost.

they are different solutions to the same problem.]]>Oct 14th 2009 3:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sun-flashfires-record-breaking-storage-performance-will-make-ne/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sun-flashfires-record-breaking-storage-performance-will-make-ne/
They are not different solutions for the same problem, they address two very distinct problems.]]>Oct 14th 2009 4:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sun-flashfires-record-breaking-storage-performance-will-make-ne/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sun-flashfires-record-breaking-storage-performance-will-make-ne/
I would say there are overlapping areas where the XS would benefit instead of just getting a new array like this SUN box. And others where it wont help.. But the XS advantage is its much cheaper then getting a new array yet still yields a major performance boost in a large majority of cases.

It doesn't help us much for backups, but for most of our DBs and much of our other SAN data it helps immensely.]]>Oct 14th 2009 4:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sun-flashfires-record-breaking-storage-performance-will-make-ne/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sun-flashfires-record-breaking-storage-performance-will-make-ne/Oct 14th 2009 9:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sun-flashfires-record-breaking-storage-performance-will-make-ne/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sun-flashfires-record-breaking-storage-performance-will-make-ne/Oct 14th 2009 10:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sun-flashfires-record-breaking-storage-performance-will-make-ne/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sun-flashfires-record-breaking-storage-performance-will-make-ne/Oct 14th 2009 2:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sun-flashfires-record-breaking-storage-performance-will-make-ne/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sun-flashfires-record-breaking-storage-performance-will-make-ne/Oct 14th 2009 9:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sun-flashfires-record-breaking-storage-performance-will-make-ne/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sun-flashfires-record-breaking-storage-performance-will-make-ne/Oct 14th 2009 9:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sun-flashfires-record-breaking-storage-performance-will-make-ne/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sun-flashfires-record-breaking-storage-performance-will-make-ne/Oct 14th 2009 12:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sun-flashfires-record-breaking-storage-performance-will-make-ne/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sun-flashfires-record-breaking-storage-performance-will-make-ne/Oct 14th 2009 12:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sun-flashfires-record-breaking-storage-performance-will-make-ne/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sun-flashfires-record-breaking-storage-performance-will-make-ne/Oct 14th 2009 1:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sun-flashfires-record-breaking-storage-performance-will-make-ne/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sun-flashfires-record-breaking-storage-performance-will-make-ne/Oct 14th 2009 1:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sun-flashfires-record-breaking-storage-performance-will-make-ne/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sun-flashfires-record-breaking-storage-performance-will-make-ne/
Something tells me this might end up in Oracle's benchmark reference platform for RAC.

HooYah!]]>Oct 14th 2009 9:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sun-flashfires-record-breaking-storage-performance-will-make-ne/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sun-flashfires-record-breaking-storage-performance-will-make-ne/http://www.oracle.com/database/database-machine.html).]]>Oct 14th 2009 12:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sun-flashfires-record-breaking-storage-performance-will-make-ne/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sun-flashfires-record-breaking-storage-performance-will-make-ne/
And really, this thing isn't that impressive, sure its fast, but its small and likely very expensive. Just becaue they threw expensive disk technology at the problem doesn't make it innovative, or even a good idea.

In a way this is akin to suping up that old '73 dodge charger. Sure, you can drop a bigger enginer in there, bore it out, wider tires, etc. But if your goal is anything other than showing it off at tradeshows and online, well you'd be better off with a corola or something.]]>Oct 14th 2009 10:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sun-flashfires-record-breaking-storage-performance-will-make-ne/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sun-flashfires-record-breaking-storage-performance-will-make-ne/Oct 14th 2009 1:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sun-flashfires-record-breaking-storage-performance-will-make-ne/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sun-flashfires-record-breaking-storage-performance-will-make-ne/Oct 14th 2009 2:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sun-flashfires-record-breaking-storage-performance-will-make-ne/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sun-flashfires-record-breaking-storage-performance-will-make-ne/Oct 14th 2009 12:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sun-flashfires-record-breaking-storage-performance-will-make-ne/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sun-flashfires-record-breaking-storage-performance-will-make-ne/
Like a nuclear powered cooling system, somehow.]]>Oct 14th 2009 12:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sun-flashfires-record-breaking-storage-performance-will-make-ne/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sun-flashfires-record-breaking-storage-performance-will-make-ne/Oct 14th 2009 12:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sun-flashfires-record-breaking-storage-performance-will-make-ne/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sun-flashfires-record-breaking-storage-performance-will-make-ne/Oct 14th 2009 12:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sun-flashfires-record-breaking-storage-performance-will-make-ne/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sun-flashfires-record-breaking-storage-performance-will-make-ne/Oct 14th 2009 12:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sun-flashfires-record-breaking-storage-performance-will-make-ne/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sun-flashfires-record-breaking-storage-performance-will-make-ne/Oct 14th 2009 9:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sun-flashfires-record-breaking-storage-performance-will-make-ne/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sun-flashfires-record-breaking-storage-performance-will-make-ne/
Unless they create a DMA connection for it. But then, DDR3 maxes at that same 12.8GBps. DDR4 will be needed to really do anything with this.]]>Oct 14th 2009 2:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sun-flashfires-record-breaking-storage-performance-will-make-ne/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sun-flashfires-record-breaking-storage-performance-will-make-ne/Oct 14th 2009 6:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sun-flashfires-record-breaking-storage-performance-will-make-ne/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sun-flashfires-record-breaking-storage-performance-will-make-ne/This needs 12.8GBps - note the big "B" - and more if the connection involves any overhead.]]>Oct 14th 2009 6:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sun-flashfires-record-breaking-storage-performance-will-make-ne/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sun-flashfires-record-breaking-storage-performance-will-make-ne/Look at the iPod. Sleek, clean, awesome, and app full.
And what is this?
Some crap?
12GB/s? PFFT. My iPod 2nd Gen can do 15GB/s. You don't see me getting in to the news?
And let's compare the price tag:
iPod: $250.
Junk Storage: Millions of dollars.

Face it guys. iPod wins this challenge hands down.
It wins everything and anything you throw at it. I guess if Sun EVER decides to release an ACTUALLY good competitor to the iPod Touch, then we may have something to base this on.
But come on.
iPod wins again.
And will in about 50 years time as well. I could probably emulate this crap on my iPod ;o






loljk guys.
Dx]]>Oct 14th 2009 2:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sun-flashfires-record-breaking-storage-performance-will-make-ne/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sun-flashfires-record-breaking-storage-performance-will-make-ne/Oct 14th 2009 4:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sun-flashfires-record-breaking-storage-performance-will-make-ne/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/14/sun-flashfires-record-breaking-storage-performance-will-make-ne/
Really?
Are you for real...or what?!
....okay...pass it this way...it has to be some good a$s shit!]]>Nov 7th 2009 12:36AM