The coming crisis in disk drives

The flooding-induced disk drive drought is over, except for some channel filling, but the last year’s drive vendor profitability may be the last good news they see for years. Trends are conspiring against disk drive vendors. 1st, worldwide PC sales are slowing...

Skyera’s 99¢ store

Interesting companies at this year’s Flash Memory Summit, but the winner of the StorageMojo BuzzGen award is Skyera. That there’s little detail on their system may have helped: attendees get to fantasize about the putative magic under the covers. Founded...

IBM buys Texas Memory Systems

IBM has purchased the oldest and most respected high-end SSD builder in the country: Texas Memory Systems. Founder and CEO Holly Frost has led the company for 34 years. No word on price, but I expect it was not stratospheric. Before the advent of flash memory, the SSD...

F5100 array internals

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...