by Robin Harris | Wednesday, July 2, 2014 | Marketing, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Americans love round numbers. 600HP. 200MPH. $1,000,000,000. 15% capital gains tax rate. 10Gb/s. 6TB drive. 1,000,000 IOPS. $2/GB. Those are brawny, manly numbers that red-blooded Americans can relate to. Not fussy little decimals, sliding further into irrelevancy...
by Robin Harris | Monday, June 30, 2014 | Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Crossbar, the resistance RAM (RRAM) startup, opened the kimono a little wider today with the announcement of their “1TnR” architecture, which they have implemented on pre-production test chips. Unpacking 1TnR: 1 Transistor drives n number of RRAM cells....
by Robin Harris | Friday, June 27, 2014 | Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
NVRAM maker Crossbar’s co-founder and professor at U Michigan Wei Lu has published a paper describing a never-before-seen phenomena: metal nanoparticles moving in a solid. Crossbar is pushing RRAM – Resistance RAM – but there is a problem with most...
by Robin Harris | Friday, June 13, 2014 | Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Management, Object storage, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
The cost of flash versus even 15k FC drives has made it common practice to compare “usable gigabytes” to disk array capacity. Pure Storageand, lately, HP, have invoked the idea that, with proper techniques, usable flash capacity can be competitive with the...
by Robin Harris | Friday, May 23, 2014 | Architecture, Clusters, Disk, SAN, FC, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Tired of Fibre Channel? Bored with Ethernet? Infiniband not enough? EMC has a new idea: a PCIe SAN. PCIe is part of their DSSD plan. A good question is: will customers buy it? A better question is: what is EMC talking about? EMC‘s head of product operations, Jeremy...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, May 15, 2014 | Enterprise, Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Volume shipments of 3D NAND flash could arrive in 2016, if Toshiba’s and SanDisk’s plans bear fruit. Fab 5 at their Yokkaichi campus is expected to install a 3D pilot line in 2H15. The project is funded jointly with SanDisk. Samsung started sampling 128Gb,...
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