by Robin Harris | Friday, June 29, 2012 | SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
The Sun Oracle F5100 flash-DIMM array joined Violin Memory’s flash array as the storage on the lowest latency TPC-C benchmarks (see The SSD write cliff in real life for that data). Alert reader KD Mann pointed out that the F5100’s flash DIMMs are simply...
by Robin Harris | Friday, June 29, 2012 | Off-Topic |
It was a break, not a vacation. I’m planning one of the latter this week in San Diego. If there’s someone in the SD neighborhood I should talk to, please comment. Otherwise I’ll be lounging in the cool ocean breezes, iced drink in hand. Love the...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, June 13, 2012 | Off-Topic |
After more than 6 years of relatively steady writing, I’m taking a break. No cell phone. No computer. No Internet. Until June 25th. There will be comment moderation, so please comment subject to the usual “Courteous comments welcome, of course”...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, June 13, 2012 | Enterprise, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
As a movie buff I’m surprised by people who say something like “I saw The Godfather when it came out, so I don’t need to see it again.” One of the pleasures of re-watching a movie is seeing how memory of the movie differs from the movie itself:...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, June 7, 2012 | Architecture, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Flash drives are known to have latency issues. The requirement to erase and program large blocks – even for small writes – means that if the drive runs out of free blocks a 50+ ms delay is possible while garbage collection works to provide one. Since free...
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