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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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With the SSD market on the grow, vendors continue to vie for their share of the segment with new products.
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LSI’s new WarpDrive SPL-300 plugs into a standard PCIe slot.
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Hitachi Global Storage Technologies’ solid-state disk (SSD) drives are available with SAS or Fibre Channel interfaces.
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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.
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The aim of the newly formed vendor group is top develop standards for PCIe-based solid state disks (SSDs).
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In part one of this two-part look at SSDs, Jeff Layton examines why SSD performance degrades over time and offers some potential solutions to the problem.
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The latency of the Internet is greater than the latency of disk, so what's the point of Flash cache for Web devices?
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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.
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Company expects MLC technology will cut the price of SSDs in half.
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The company claims its G4 update delivers 250,000 write input/output operations per second.
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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.
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Recent quarterly earnings reports seem to indicate that the storage industry is on a slow rebound, driven in part by technology refreshes.
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The company will provide a multi-terabyte SSD (Solid State Drive) storage system for use by a Federal Government Agency.
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The company will discuss solid-state technology at two different sessions at the Flash Memory Summit in August.
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The HLNAND SSD prototype is optimized for mass storage applications.
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The company has expanded capacity by announcing the S-1000 which provides up to 10 TB of SSD capacity per shelf.
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The kit enables migration from a traditional hard drive to a Crucial Real SSD C300.
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The ShuttleCraft Series SAS SSD is designed to meet the storage needs of the enterprise market.
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Hitachi-LG Data Storage plans to use the Barefoot Solid State Drive (SSD) controller by Indilinx in its HyDrive.
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The company is leveraging the optimization of MaxIQ storage controllers to allows OCZ to maximize SSD performance.
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The company has expanded its MaxIQ Solid State Drive (SSD) caching product line.
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Enterprise-class SSDs are just in time to accommodate high throughput brought on by virtualization and the cloud.
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The company plans to offer a new series of Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) flash storage units.
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Founded in 2007, StorSpeed appears to have slowed on the funding front.
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The new performance solid state drive is a limited edition of OCZ's Vertex line and comes in 100-GB and 200-GB capacities.
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