by Robin Harris | Monday, May 19, 2008 | Disk, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Greetings from Las Vegas And EMC World 2008. Dave Donatelli, president of EMC’s storage business, presented to the press room this morning. His most interesting statement was that flash drives will have cost-parity with, and therefore replace, high-end rotating...
by Robin Harris | Monday, May 12, 2008 | Architecture, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Herewith continues NAND – an engineer’s perspective. Any you thought marketing guys were wordy! The quoted bits are from the earlier StorageMojo post Notebook flash SSD market: fantasy or mirage?. Teil eins ist hier. Begin part zwei . . . tested...
by Robin Harris | Sunday, April 27, 2008 | Architecture, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Fresh off the HD-DVD fiasco, Toshiba execs are stepping up to pursue another expensive flop: notebook SSDs. Memo to Toshiba: people won’t pay huge SSD premiums for nothing. And almost nothing is what flash SSDs provide today – and for the foreseeable...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, March 11, 2008 | Enterprise, Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
How flash is really going to affect the storage industry is becoming clear. The short take: not as big a deal as flash vendors hoped. The longer take: There won’t be much of a mid-range flash market; instead we’ll see either costly fast flash or cheap slow...
by Robin Harris | Friday, March 7, 2008 | Enterprise, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
I ran into Woody Hutsell, EVP at Texas Memory Systems, last week. He graciously agreed to a talk on camera about their experience with flash and DRAM-based solid state storage. TMS sells both: a DRAM-based SSD with multiple FC and Infiniband ports; and a 2 TB flash...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, February 5, 2008 | Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Flash may be getting all the attention, but the boffins are working hard to ensure we have options to flash. We need those options because flash has some serious limitations, like random write performance and density, that we may not be able to overcome. On the other...
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