Are SSD-based arrays a bad idea?

Think: if NAND flash storage arrays were being developed today, what is the chance that we’d put the flash into little bricks and then plug a bunch of them into a backplane? So why do it now? It is a truism of design that when a new technology is developed, we...

NAND’s dimming future

Another StorageMojo Best paper, The Bleak Future of NAND Flash Memory, presented at this year’s FAST ’12 conference, quantifies flash’s declining reliability, endurance, and performance as density increases. Researchers Laura M. Grupp and Steven...