by Robin Harris | Monday, October 6, 2008 | Disk |
I’ve been waiting a long time for the transition to 2.5″ drives. Now it appears that the wait is over and it is truly underway. The dynamics aren’t what I expected. The impetus: installing a new WD 300 GB VelociRaptor 10k drive in my Mac Pro. It is a...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, August 13, 2008 | Architecture, Disk, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
A panel discussion on enterprise SSDs at the Flash Memory Summit came to an almost unanimous conclusion: NAND flash is best seen as an extension to DRAM and a layer between DRAM and disk – not as the guts of a disk drive replacement. I don’t think the guy...
by Robin Harris | Monday, July 7, 2008 | Architecture, Disk, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
George Ou weighs in Many good points have been made about the problems with the Tom’s Hardware flash SSD tests. My former colleague George Ou, late of ZDnet, weighed in with an excellent summary of the TH testing problems: The tests are very flawed. If you...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, July 2, 2008 | Disk, Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
It’s all over but the shouting The scoop: the gap between notebook SSD promise and performance has been growing steadily. Now a review in Tom’s Hardware puts the final nail in the coffin. The title says it all: The SSD Power Consumption Hoax : Flash SSDs...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, June 11, 2008 | Architecture, Clusters, Disk, NAS, IP, iSCSI, SAN, FC |
I wrote a short piece on ZDnet about Los Alamos National Labs new Cell Broadband Engine based supercomputer, Roadrunner. With ~14k v.3 Cell processors – an earlier version powers the PS3 game console – and another ~7k dual core Opterons, the...
by Robin Harris | Monday, May 19, 2008 | Disk, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Greetings from Las Vegas And EMC World 2008. Dave Donatelli, president of EMC’s storage business, presented to the press room this morning. His most interesting statement was that flash drives will have cost-parity with, and therefore replace, high-end rotating...
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