Buried in SSD News — there’s this:
So what can you do with an Octal powered server that you couldn’t do before?
One trivial example is that if you add some dedupe, compression and an iSCSIstack you can easily create a 1U storage appliance with maybe 100TB to 200TB of fast virtual storage which (because of the low latency) will run rings around similar bulk storage SSDs which use 2.5″ SSDs in RAID.
Here’s the direct link: SSD NEWS
(you’ll have to scroll about 1/3rd the way down the page)
