Recently there have been several reports about the new hardware from Sun + Oracle that'll beat out all competition, especially the likes of IBM. I am sure you guys have heard of them.
There have been reports at one of our favorite blogs about the new Sun F5100. This all makes sense now.
One can bet that this new record breaking system includes this yet to be released F5100 flash array. This flash array contains 80 flash modules (FMOD), plenty of backup energy storage modules (ESM). It is an array, so it has some HBA's in the back to be hooked up to host nodes for processing power. The ESM modules provide power to the "flash disks" in case AC power is lost or when a FMOD needs replacing.
So, what can one do with 80 flash drives backed by some heavy duty servers? You can get some nice snapshots of the hardware at docs.sun.com.
Nice!
(Oh, it's a 1U, a quick peek of it.)