by Robin Harris | Tuesday, March 10, 2009 | Enterprise, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Fusion-io had the PCI-e flash card market all to themselves for the longest time – but no more. Texas Memory Systems, a stalwart in the DRAM-based SSD market, has announced a new product, the RAMSan-20, a 450 GB SSD on a full height, full length PCI-e card. With...
by Robin Harris | Saturday, January 17, 2009 | Disk, Enterprise, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Truism: flash is not the same as disk. So why don’t we take advantage of that – rather than hiding it? Partly is it is the human SOP: first build the old thing out of the new stuff. Not to mention the commercial allure of hundreds of millions of SATA...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, January 13, 2009 | Disk, Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
He was pushed Seagate’s Bill Watkins, CEO since 2004, apparently lost the confidence of the Seagate board and was replaced by former CEO and current Chairman Stephen Luczo. Why? Not Watkins’ sometimes bizarre public statements: that would’ve gotten...
by Robin Harris | Sunday, January 4, 2009 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Disk, Enterprise, Future Tech, SAN, FC, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
The world of data storage is changing faster than it has since the mid-90’s amid the rise of hardware arrays and storage networks. Looking back 2008 will be seen as a pivotal year. The big news, in rough ascending order: FCoE Though production-ready products are...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, December 4, 2008 | Architecture, Enterprise, Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
I got a note from David Flynn, co-founder and CTO of Fusion-io (disclosure: I’ve done work for them) in response to The new storage pyramid. He makes several points about the nature of the array model that I wish I’d made. Well worth the read. David...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, November 25, 2008 | Architecture, Disk, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Valiant but doomed The ZFS discussion thread had an interesting comment from Sun’s Jeff Bonwick, architect of ZFS, on storage device failure modes. How do you know a disk or a tape has failed? You don’t. You wait, while the milliseconds stretch into...
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