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EMC has upped its Symmetrix DMX-4, Clariion and Celerra enterprise flash solid state drive capacities to 200GB and 400GB from the current 73GB maximum capacity. The higher capacity STEC SSDs are available for Symmetrix now and Clarion and Celerra later this year. When the Celerra upgrade was announced in late February, the …

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  1. Gavin McLaughlin

    The future ?

    "That's the potential array future; a one-two combo of speedy SSD plus cheap bulk storage SATA drives"

    It's not the future - it's here now with the Sun S7000 products. The thing is, it's not just speedy SSDs you need but a file system that understands how to use them to their best potential - e.g. Hybrid Storage Pools in ZFS.

    Oh and they're cheaper than EMC storage with no add on software costs too !

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  2. Anonymous Coward
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    Sun sun sun

    Every storage related post has someone commenting (advertising) how Sun have some wonderful product that is much better than the market leaders. Hint: that Sun aren't a storage leader might be an indication that customers aren't finding their solutions to be compelling. Especially since most of them are rebranded LSI/Engenio and HDS arrays.

    ZFS! ZFS! ZFS! Even the mighty ZFS hasn't changed much in Sun's storage lineup. ZFS!

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