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Flash SSD superdrives
Newly emerged SSD drives are very fast (there are already over 400GB/s read SATA II+ drives), quite compact (there are 4-drives arrays in PCIe card form-factor) and capaciouse (up to 1TB drives are available).
If not the price - would be a nice replacement for HDD (even now are, in some niche applications)
What is bad - they still mimic HDDs. Not too bad, but not quite space and productivity effective.
I'd like to propose some more compact solutions for SSD:
5.25" drive form-factor 8 drives pass-through JBOD (2 mini-SAS connectors)
5.25" drive form-factor 8 drives expander-based JBOD (1 mini-SAS connector, SAS 6G expander backplane)
5.25" drive form-factor 8 drives RAID array (1 mini-SAS connector, SAS-to-SAS LSISAS2116-based backplane)
3.5" drive form-factor 6 drives RAID array (1 mini-SAS connector, SAS-to-SAS LSISAS2116-based backplane)
3.5" drive form-factor 6 drives RAID array (1 mini-SAS connector (2 lines used), SAS-to-SAS LSISAS2008-based backplane)
3.5" drive form-factor 6 drives expander-based JBOD (1 mini-SAS connector, SAS 6G expander backplane)
3.5" drive form-factor 4 drives pass-through JBOD (1 mini-SAS connectors)
Even with 400GB/s 6-drives array will saturate 4-lines SAS 6G connection, 8-drives array will saturate any modern SAS 6G controller. With full-speed SATA 6G (up to 530-540GB/s - think will come quite soon), even 6-drive array will saturate any future SAS 6G controller (up to 3.5GB/s)
RAID arrays may provide up to 1.2-1.6GB/s per array - imagine 3/4-drives array running at 3GB/s!
Such speeds are already in need and a tiny 3.5" form-factor 2.4-3.5 GB/s RAID arrays / JBODs may be in a huge demand