SSD Tag Index

Henry Newman revisits his 2011 predictions for the storage industry and prognosticates about 2012 and beyond.
Tags : cloud security, SSD, Storage, IOPS, security, RAID

The hybrid storage appliance maker expands its family -- adds a VMware plug-in.
Tags : appliances, SSD, Nimble Storage, Storage, array

These eight storage companies are pushing cloud, SSD, big data and virtualization to the next level.
Tags : virtualization, cloud computing, SSD, storage virtualization, start ups, big data

Specification tests performance of SSDs regardless of vendor.
Tags : SNIA, Storage, SSD

SSD dominance shows no sign of abating as the aisles of Storage Networking World demonstrated earlier this month. With nearly half the vendors touting their latest flash products, we look at 10 to keep a close watch on.
Tags : SSD, Top 10, solid state drive, solid state disk, Storage

Taneja Group analyst Jeff Boles explains why performance, long neglected by storage innovation, is now at a mismatch with today's applications. But a solution may be on the way.
Tags : SSD, Taneja Group, Storage, performance, I/O

SandForce controllers are found in a wide range of SSDs. The most interesting and unique feature of SandForce SSD controllers is that they use real-time data compression to improve performance and SSD longevity. The impact, however, depends on the compressibility of the data.
Tags : dedupe, real-time, Storage, SSD, data compression

SSDs may be expensive, but they're well worth their high price tag when you consider their advantages. Here are 10 Reasons why SSDs are better than mechanical disks.
Tags : disk, solid state disk, SSD, power and cooling, disk storage

Users can scale performance to almost 900,000 IOPS per rack
Tags : RAID array, SSD

Intel's 310 Series solid state disk (SSD) drives have almost as much performance as the company’s 2.5-inch X25-M SSDs, but in one-eighth the size.
Tags : Intel, 310 Series, solid state disk, SSD

The JEDEC Solid State Association has published two sets of standards for endurance and reliability.
Tags : SSD, solid state disk drives

IBM to integrate multi-level cell SSDs into the DS8800, DS8700, Storwize V7000 arrays.
Tags : IBM, MLC, SSD, STEC

In part two of his look at solid state disk performance degradation, Jeff Layton puts an enterprise SSD through its paces to understand its performance characteristics before, during and after heavy use.
Tags : SSD Performance, solid state disk, Intel, SSD

The cost of disk storage isn’t dropping as fast as it has in years past and storage density improvements are going to take far longer until new technology enters the market in 2013 or 2014.
Tags : HDD, SSD, Storage Budgeting, Storage Planning, Hard Disk Drives

With the SSD market on the grow, vendors continue to vie for their share of the segment with new products.
Tags : solid state disk, fibre channel, SAS, SSD

LSI’s new WarpDrive SPL-300 plugs into a standard PCIe slot.
Tags : LSI, SPL-300, SSD, solid state disk, WarpDrive

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies’ solid-state disk (SSD) drives are available with SAS or Fibre Channel interfaces.
Tags : SSD, Intel, solid state disk, Hitachi GST

Henry Newman revisits the limitations of storage I/O and explains why the movement of data is at the mercy of the physical constraints within computers and storage hardware.
Tags : storage networking, Flash, SSD, solid state disk, Storage I/O

The aim of the newly formed vendor group is top develop standards for PCIe-based solid state disks (SSDs).
Tags : SSD Standards, SSD, PCIe SSDs, solid state disk

The latency of the Internet is greater than the latency of disk, so what's the point of Flash cache for Web devices?
Tags : solid state disk, Flash, cache, disk drives, SSD

IT is responsible for almost as much of the world's CO2 emissions as the aviation industry, but the groundwork is being laid for substantial long-term performance improvements that could make data centers – and storage systems – much greener.
Tags : MAID, Energy Star, The Green Grid, SNIA, SSD

STEC is now shipping new SSDs and now supports DRAM, SLC and MLC NAND Flash.
Tags : STEC, SLC, SSD, MLC, Flash

Violin’s addition of MLC-based devices to its line of SSDs is indicative of the general trend toward MLC NAND flash in enterprise disk arrays.
Tags : SSD, MLC, SLC, Violin Memory, Flash

Solid state disk (SSD) development could easily stagnate at the 20-25nm mark without changes to today’s materials and techniques for storing and retrieving data.
Tags : Lithography, solid state disk, Flash, SSD, NAND

Company expects MLC technology will cut the price of SSDs in half.
Tags : SLC, SSD, solid state disk, Pliant, MLC

Virtual desktops get an I/O performance boost from the Network Storage Server (NSS) SAN Accelerator’s SSD technology.
Tags : VDI, SAN Accelerator, FalconStor, virtual desktop infrastructure, SSD

SATADIMM is an Enterprise Class SATA II Solid State Drive (SSD).
Tags : Solid State Storage, SATA, Solid-State Drives, SSD

Micron's 6Gbps SATA drives compete with SSD drives from Intel, Samsung and STEC. Meanwhile, Seagate is partnering with Samsung for enterprise-class SSD controllers.
Tags : solid state disk, Flash, SSD

The company will provide a multi-terabyte SSD (Solid State Drive) storage system for use by a Federal Government Agency.
Tags : SSD, solid state drive, solid state disk, storage system, Solid State Storage

The HLNAND SSD prototype is optimized for mass storage applications.
Tags : SSDs, SSD, SATA, solid state disk

Fusion-io has combined the capabilities of traditional I/O subsystems with the features of virtual memory to create a hybrid flash-optimized OS subsystem called the ioMemory VSL.
Tags : Flash, Solid State Storage, solid state drives, Fusion-io, SSD

The company has expanded capacity by announcing the S-1000 which provides up to 10 TB of SSD capacity per shelf.
Tags : solid state disk, storage capacity, SSD, solid state drive, SSDs

The kit enables migration from a traditional hard drive to a Crucial Real SSD C300.
Tags : solid state, solid state disk, SSD, solid state drive

The Solid State Storage Initiative (SSSI) of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) has announced the Solid State Storage Performance Test Specification for public review.
Tags : storage networking, SSD, solid state

There has been some new activity in the RAID arena with companies like Infortrend and Arena-MaxTronic adding to their respective product families, according to a recent report from sister site InfoStor.com.
Tags : SSD, encryption, SSD RAID Array, RAID, RAID storage

Vendors have been quick to offer cache solutions for direct attached storage (DAS), network attached storage (NAS) and storage area networks (SAN).
Tags : NAS, SAN, DAS, SSD, Solid-State Drives

The enterprise-class solid state drives are powered by SandForce's SF-1500 controller.
Tags : solid state drives, SSD, OCZ

Anobit claims a breakthrough in low-cost solid state drives that has eluded other SSD makers.
Tags : MLC flash, EMC, Anobit, solid state drive, SSD

The new Application Cloud Controller based on SSD is a storage device with embedded application awareness.
Tags : Solid State Storage, Cloud Storage, SSD, Cloud

Hitachi-LG Data Storage plans to use the Barefoot Solid State Drive (SSD) controller by Indilinx in its HyDrive.
Tags : solid state disk, Solid State Storage, SSD

Pricing for the 3200 Memory Array is on par with traditional hard disk drive arrays.
Tags : SSD RAID Array, SSD, RAID, Solid State Storage

The company is leveraging the optimization of MaxIQ storage controllers to allows OCZ to maximize SSD performance.
Tags : SSD, solid state disk, OCZ, enterprise storage

The acquired product lines from Microchip Technology will form the core of Greenliant's solid-state storage product portfolio.
Tags : solid state drive, Flash, NAND, controller, SSD

The company has expanded its MaxIQ Solid State Drive (SSD) caching product line.
Tags : controller, PCIe, storage management, SSD, solid state disk

HP says its new SSD is suitable for use in Midline (MDL) drive environments.
Tags : solid state drive, SSD, Enterprise

This study contrasts HDDs,SDDs and hybrids
Tags : data storage, solid state drive, SSD, storage networking

Enterprise-class SSDs are just in time to accommodate high throughput brought on by virtualization and the cloud.
Tags : storage network, SSD, solid state disk, throughput, RAID

The new MaxIQ Storage Controllers offer wider support for solid-state drives (SSDs) and enhanced management and analytics tools.
Tags : storage controller, data protection, SSD, Adaptec

The challenge that has plagued the reality of tiered storage management has been its management complexity. This is the Achilles heel of this innovative technology and has in many cases has compromised the effective integration of SSD resulting in the self defensive reaction of over provisioning.
Tags : SSD, storage networking, data protection, storage management, solid state drive

The company plans to offer a new series of Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) flash storage units.
Tags : SSD, solid state disk, storage system, Enterprise

According to the company its SSD processors a record performance benchmark on IBM Power Systems.
Tags : performance, SSD, IBM Power System, Enterprise, solid state drive

IBM plans to include SandForce Flash controller chip technology in future systems.
Tags : SSD, Enterprise, controller, Flash, data

The company's new Serial Attached SCSI ( SAS ) Solid State Drive offers capacities up to 400-GB.
Tags : Enterprise, Storage, solid state drive, SSD

Nimbus Data Systems has unveiled an all-SSD data storage array that the company claims is the first of its kind for enterprise storage.
Tags : solid state drive, MLC flash, storage networking, SSD, Nimbus Data Systems

It's sure to provoke debate, but here are our nominations for the coolest SSD implementations.
Tags : Intel, SSD, solid state drive, EMC, STEC

Schooner's servers a proprietary architecture to provide high performance/high availability disaster-recovery and storage capabilities.
Tags : archive, SSD, storage appliance, disaster recovery

IBM beats EMC to market with sub-volume data storage tiering.
Tags : IBM, SSD, storage management, tiered storage, solid state drive

OCZ Technology Group announced it will begin mass producing its PCI-Express (PCIe) Z-Drive R2 Solid State Drive (SSD) series.
Tags : SSD, SAN, solid state drive, storage system

In the past month 3PAR, Riverbed and LSI/Seagate have all introduced solid state drives.
Tags : SSD, solid state drive, vendor

Flash-based SSD in the enterprise is used as a caching tier for servers or as a storage tier.
Tags : Flash, SSD, storage tier, server cache, controller

The company claims its hybrid solution is designed to help bridge the gap between storage and servers.
Tags : SSD, HDD, data storage, server

Issues like wear leveling and your SAS or RAID controller will determine whether SSDs succeed in your storage networking environment.
Tags : RAID controllers, storage networking, storage management, solid state drive, SSD

3Par has moved past EMC with first-to-market positioning with sub-volume data optimization.
Tags : 3PAR, SSD, sub-volume, storage array, storage tiering

The company announced availability for its new line of EtherDrive SRX-Series storage arrays and new host bus adapters that enable high-speed Ethernet SAN access.
Tags : storage array, SATA, SSD, SAS

Pliant Technology’s Lightning Enterprise Flash Drives (EFDs), topped one million IOPS in a configuration with 16 drives.
Tags : Enterprise, SSD, flash drive, IOPS, Storage

Founded in 2007, StorSpeed appears to have slowed on the funding front.
Tags : solid state disk, StorSpeed, SSD, appliance

The new Adaptive Optimization software is designed to squeeze more out of the company's high-end storage servers.
Tags : storage server, tiering, SSD, 3PAR, optimization

3PAR beats EMC to the punch with storage tiering at the sub-LUN level.
Tags : 3PAR, storage tiering, storage networking, SSD, solid state drive

STEC embedded SSDs offer random read performance of 15,000 IOPS and 6,000 IOPS Random Writes.
Tags : solid state drive, storage management, embedded, SSD

The new performance solid state drive is a limited edition of OCZ's Vertex line and comes in 100-GB and 200-GB capacities.
Tags : SSD, solid state disk, data storage, OCZ

These eight storage companies are pushing cloud, SSD, big data and virtualization to the next level.
Tags : virtualization, cloud computing, SSD, storage virtualization, start ups, big data

SSD dominance shows no sign of abating as the aisles of Storage Networking World demonstrated earlier this month. With nearly half the vendors touting their latest flash products, we look at 10 to keep a close watch on.
Tags : SSD, Top 10, solid state drive, solid state disk, Storage

Taneja Group analyst Jeff Boles explains why performance, long neglected by storage innovation, is now at a mismatch with today's applications. But a solution may be on the way.
Tags : SSD, Taneja Group, Storage, performance, I/O

SandForce controllers are found in a wide range of SSDs. The most interesting and unique feature of SandForce SSD controllers is that they use real-time data compression to improve performance and SSD longevity. The impact, however, depends on the compressibility of the data.
Tags : dedupe, real-time, Storage, SSD, data compression

In part two of his look at solid state disk performance degradation, Jeff Layton puts an enterprise SSD through its paces to understand its performance characteristics before, during and after heavy use.
Tags : SSD Performance, solid state disk, Intel, SSD