Sun Microsystems To Launch Energy Efficient Flash SSD

Sun Microsystems Inc. announced plans to introduce new Sun solid state disks or SSD to the market providing greater application performance, massive scale and value through the integration of the Solaris operating system, Solaris ZFS and other open source technologies.

Sun Microsystems indicated the Flash technology SSDs to consume around one fifth of the power of both memory DIMMs and disk drives, with no rotating media and consume very little power when not in use, more eco-friendly than alternatives.