Flash isn’t living up to the hype

Not so far Flash drives have been rocketing up the hype cycle for the last year, helped along by credulous gadget sites and misleading performance numbers. But the free ride is coming to an end. Over on Storage Bits (see Flash gets a fight from disks and Hybrid...

The coming boom in SSD’s

Solid state disks have been around for decades and failed to make the IT mainstream. Why is that about to change? I did a stint of SSD marketing at DEC in the early 90’s. Then, as now, SSDs offered low I/O latency and high IOPS capacity at an astronomical $/GB....

Flash chance

Flash is weirder than you know – so keep reading – and you’ll know I think I already mentioned that the flash guys refer to “programming” flash when a storage guy like moi would say “write.” But they have a point. Flash is...

Flash’s First Victim?

Fujitsu’s 1.8″ drive bites the dust Claiming competition from flash, Fujitsu announced it was halting development of its own 1.8″ drive. Fujitsu is retreating from a market they hadn’t yet entered, which is not the same as an established player...