by Robin Harris | Thursday, September 10, 2009 | Disk, Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Flash memory is opening a second front in its war on entrenched storage technologies. So far disks have been taking the heat, but DRAM is the next target. The unannounced Sun F5100 product uses 80 48 GB flash SO-DIMMs to create a 4 TB cache appliance. Cool. But once...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, September 1, 2009 | Architecture, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
The 4 TB Sun F5100 Flash Array product launch is imminent. Much talked up by Andy Bechtolsheim the 1U array promises 1 million IOPS, 10 GB/sec throughput, 64 SAS channels, redundant power & cooling and SES management. Beyond the raw performance the F5110 is...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, September 1, 2009 | Cloud computing & storage, Future Tech, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
Imagine cloud storage that didn’t cost much more than bare drives. High density storage with RAID 6 protection, reasonable bandwidth and web-friendly HTTPS access. And really, really cheap. Raw disk cost is only 5-10% of a RAID systems cost. The rest goes for...
by Robin Harris | Monday, August 31, 2009 | Future Tech, Information Management, Marketing |
With the release of Snow Leopard it is now official: no ZFS – anywhere – in Mac OS 10.6. Given that Apple went to the trouble of announcing it last year as part of Snow Leopard Server this is quite a reversal. The question is why? Many theories I wrote...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, August 27, 2009 | SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Chris Mellor of The Register considers whether STEC’s lead in the high-performance SSD space is sustainable. When competition does arrive in the enterprise SSD market, and as STEC starts competing in the more price-sensitive server flash market, then its early...
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