by Robin Harris | Wednesday, August 13, 2008 | Architecture, Disk, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
A panel discussion on enterprise SSDs at the Flash Memory Summit came to an almost unanimous conclusion: NAND flash is best seen as an extension to DRAM and a layer between DRAM and disk – not as the guts of a disk drive replacement. I don’t think the guy...
by Robin Harris | Saturday, August 9, 2008 | SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
If you are attending the Flash Memory Summit in Santa Clara on Tuesday and Wednesday please say hello. Tuesday morning I will be sprinting between my two concurrent sessions. In Forum F1B: Laptop Design session I’ll be giving a 25 minute presentation titled...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, July 24, 2008 | SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Samsung announced a 500,000 R/W cycle on their server-grade NAND flash. I thought that was pretty smart – even though the “several month” project didn’t sound like it involved a lot of engineering. Then Flash analyst extraordinaire Jim Handy,...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, July 15, 2008 | Architecture, Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
A new Usenix paper looks at NAND flash SSD performance. From a team at Microsoft Research and the University of Wisconsin, including Ted Wobber who worked on last year’s A Design for High-Performance Flash Disks [see Flash chance for the StorageMojo take on that...
by Robin Harris | Monday, July 7, 2008 | Architecture, Disk, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
George Ou weighs in Many good points have been made about the problems with the Tom’s Hardware flash SSD tests. My former colleague George Ou, late of ZDnet, weighed in with an excellent summary of the TH testing problems: The tests are very flawed. If you...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, July 2, 2008 | Disk, Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
It’s all over but the shouting The scoop: the gap between notebook SSD promise and performance has been growing steadily. Now a review in Tom’s Hardware puts the final nail in the coffin. The title says it all: The SSD Power Consumption Hoax : Flash SSDs...
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