by Robin Harris | Saturday, February 2, 2008 | SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Update on mobile flash performance Mikko Pitkanen over at the mobile development blog Delay ToleraNt posted some more tests on Nokia N800’s flash performance. He’s a doctoral candidate at the Helsinki Institute of Physics at CERN in Switzerland with a...
by Robin Harris | Monday, January 14, 2008 | Disk, Enterprise, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
About time I’m in Silicon Valley for a few days. So I’ll keep this brief. EMC is pulling out the stops. First Hulk/Maui clusters and now putting flash SSDs in the Symm. They are positioning it as technology leadership, which it isn’t, but it is...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, November 15, 2007 | Disk, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
I wrote about my testing of notebook disk drive power usage on ZDnet yesterday (see How much does a flash disk increase battery life?). I pulled the 160 GB WD Scorpio out of my MacBook and ran it on wall power through a Kill-a-watt meter to better understand power...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, October 30, 2007 | SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
I came across this simple – too simple? – flash performance benchmark on an anonymous blog named DelayToleraNt. The benchmark is a Java program that creates random data (in chunks of kilobyte) and writes the data to a file. For comparison I ran the same...
by Robin Harris | Friday, September 28, 2007 | Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Several readers have asked Boy, do the Fusion-io guys give a good demo! Now if only they can ship a product. I like startups. People putting their heart and soul into an idea that rarely turns out as well as they hoped. As is said of 2nd marriages, the triumph of hope...
by Robin Harris | Monday, September 24, 2007 | Disk, Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
The tension was real The disk guys acknowledged that flash has killed the sub-1.8″ drive market. Will 1.8″ drives be next? The flash guys acknowledged that they have a huge economic problem: heavy seasonality of demand. Consumer demand drives a Q4 peak in...
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