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 | 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...
by Robin Harris | Friday, August 7, 2009 | Architecture, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Steve Jones of BT sent in the following, which I am publishing – with his permission – as a guest post. It has been edited and some headers added so any dodgy parts may not be his fault. Begin the guest post: SSD vs storage arrays I thought it was worth...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, August 6, 2009 | Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Last week RisingTide Systems, a stealth startup with no web site, spoke to StorageMojo. This week Avere Systems, a quiet but not stealthy startup with a website wouldn’t. Rebecca Thompson, Avere’s marketing veep, wrote Hi, Robin. Thanks for the interest,...
by Robin Harris | Monday, July 20, 2009 | Disk, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Ars Technica reported that Samsung has not found any buyers for its impressive 250 GB 1.8″ hard drive. Evidently Toshiba has the same problem. Is there a market for large capacity 1.8″ drives? Apple has dropped back to 120 GB drives in the iPod Classic,...
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