The Sun Storage 6780 Array has twice as many I/Os per second as its predecessor, the 6500 class of arrays, and scales to 448 disks or 448TB. It has eight or 16 4Gb FC host ports, 16GB cache, and 28 expansion trays per controller, and also allows an intermix of SATA and Fibre Channel drives.

The Sun Storage 6780 controller without drives starts at US$5,995 and is available immediately.

The Sun Storage 6580 Array controller unit, without disk drives, is available immediately at a list price of $59,995. The Sun Storage 6780 Array controller unit is available immediately at a list price of $89,995.