Servers get their go-faster stripesSun already had said it would make embedded flash drives an option for nearly all of its servers by year-end. Now Sun says it will deliver multiple storage products using Intel's solid-state drives, which are designed for computing operations requiring a high rate of input/output operations per second (IOPS).Intel said its flash drives are 100 times faster than standard hard-disk drives, offering performance of 35,000 IOPS. "Solid-state drive technology will change the economics of enterprise data centres," said John Fowler, Sun's server and storage chief.

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