by Robin Harris | Tuesday, October 16, 2012 | Disk, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
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...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, August 23, 2012 | Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
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...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, August 21, 2012 | SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
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...
by Robin Harris | Friday, June 29, 2012 | SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
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...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, June 13, 2012 | Enterprise, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
As a movie buff I’m surprised by people who say something like “I saw The Godfather when it came out, so I don’t need to see it again.” One of the pleasures of re-watching a movie is seeing how memory of the movie differs from the movie itself:...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, June 7, 2012 | Architecture, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Flash drives are known to have latency issues. The requirement to erase and program large blocks – even for small writes – means that if the drive runs out of free blocks a 50+ ms delay is possible while garbage collection works to provide one. Since free...
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