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- Sun to offer solid state drives as an option
- Sun is predicting that flash is poised to be the next big thing where servers are concerned. Despite the considerably higher cost of solid state drives SSD, Sun is arguing that they are really cheaper for high-performance I/O intensive applications. As such, it will be releasing a 32GB flash...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Solid State Disk, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2008-06-06
- Datacenter SSDs: Solid Footing for Growth
- This paper explores the opportunity for integrating Solid State Drives SSDs into the enterprise storage environment. Datacenter challenges are highlighted and compared with the commensurate benefits of SSDs. The forecast for SSD integration into datacenters is delineated. Finally, challenges that SSD OEMs must address before successfully engaging the datacenter are...
- Tags: Data Center, Solid State Disk, International Data Group, Datacenter Challenge, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2008-01-01
- SSDs: The Other Primary Storage Alternative
- This paper explores the market opportunities for Solid State Drives SSDs and their potential uses in the digital storage world. The technological benefits are discussed in this context, as are the opportunities where storage requirements align with SSDs. Finally, the market trends that are accelerating the adoption of SSDs in...
- Tags: Solid State Disk, International Data Group, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Intel shows off faster, low-powered solid state drive
- Intel introduces a new solid state storage drive based on high-performance NAND storage, which it claims represents the pinnacle of this technology. Called the Z-P140, it delivers a blistering 40 MB per second read and 30 MB per second of write throughput. Intel says this is 30 percent...
- Tags: Solid State Disk, NAND, Intel Corp., Z-P140, BIOS, Hardware, Components, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2007-12-14
- BitMicro unveils 1.6 TB solid state drive for the enterprise
- BitMicro unveiled a flash memory-based solid state drive this week that is designed for the enterprise. The E-Disk Altima will come in capacities of up to 1.6 TB capacity, 3.5-inch format, as well as support for 4 Gbits/sec Fiber Channel. According to The Register: The...
- Tags: I/O, Storage, Solid State Disk, BitMicro, E-Disk Altima, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2007-11-17
- Samsung demonstrates solid state drives with SATA II interface
- Samsung demonstrated solid state-based hard drives in the 1.8 and 2.5 inch configuration, which are also the first in the world to use the SATA - II configuration. An excerpt from Tech: Although acronyms never make for terribly exciting reading, the SATA II connection is...
- Tags: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Solid State Disk, Serial ATA, Storage, Hardware, Arun Radhakrishnan
- Blog posts 2007-11-05
- Samsung demonstrates solid state drives with SATA II interface
- Solid State DrivesThis is going to be the next revolution in the computer industry. Laptops will have flash based harddrives consuming far less power than currently. The fact that the drives will be based off of NAND flash Chips means the space hard drives take up now can be evened...
- Tags: tedeansiii@..., solid state disk, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
- Discussion threads 2007-11-06
- High-end Sony Vaio G2 out next month
- The next version of Sony's high-end Vaio laptop series, the "G2", will be out in Japan in October of 2007. It will feature a Core 2 Duo CPU, SSD Solid State Drive, and a drip-proof keyboard. According to Gizmodo: You can choose from either...
- Tags: Sony Corp., Sony Vaio, Solid State Disk, Laptop Computer, G2, Keyboards, Notebooks, Processors, Hardware, Peripherals, Notebooks & Tablets, Semiconductors, Components, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2007-09-25
- Bringing Solid State Drive Benefits to Computer Notebook Users
- The benefits of flash are now becoming available to a new group of consumer electronics customers, computer notebook users. As a drop-in replacement for the traditional mechanical Hard Disk Drive HDD, the flash-based Solid State Drive SSD can be used inside thin and light laptops, ultra-portable, Ultra-Mobile PCs UMPCs and...
- Tags: Solid State Disk, Computer, Ultramobile PCs (UMPCs), Productivity, Notebooks, Tablets, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Emerging Technologies
- White papers 2007-04-01
- Solid state drive storage: Good for the enterprise?
- RevolutionSSD is in use in form of Flash pen drives. But when it had increased capacity it can be deployed in Laptops making them really robust, probably lighter and reliable also. This is indeed going to last. No Moving part !!Not to mention the endurance factor.I read an article a...
- Tags: anurag.agarwal@..., SSD, storage, Solid State Drive
- Discussion threads 2007-07-09
- Solid state drive storage: Good for the enterprise?
- Over the years, the good old magnetic platter has undergone many changes that have made hard drives a commodity and drastically driven down the cost of storage. Today, storage costs anywhere from about 30 cents per GB for SATA drives to $3 per GB for enterprise-grade SAS drives. Of course,...
- Tags: storage, solid state drives, mobile computing, disaster recovery
- Blog posts 2007-07-03
- Utilizing Solid State Disks in the Financial Industry
- Financial Services companies are seeking technology that will enable them to process more transactions. This is being accomplished by implementing faster servers, more powerful applications, high-bandwidth networks, and high-performance storage, such as solid state disks. Solid state disks are a cost-effective way to improve application performance because they support outrageous...
- Tags: Disk, Financial, Solid State Disk
- White papers 2007-02-01
- Increase Application Performance With Solid State Disks
- Application performance can be finicky. One day an application is slowed by network latencies; another day it can be impacted by processor limits and, when everything else is going smoothly I/O bottlenecks pop up as more users make the application work harder. Solving performance problems and I/O bottlenecks can be...
- Tags: Texas Memory Systems, Disk, Performance, I/O, Solid State Disk, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- White papers 2006-05-01
- Flash Drives Replacing HDD
- Has anyone implemented and or tested Industrial grade Flash drives? A company called Simpletech makes them. reportedly having 1 million hours 10 years capability with no moving parts?YesWe have been looking at them. SimpleTech came out of the ol
- Tags: feedback, GB Drive, hard drive, harddrives, hardware, management, memory, parts, rschmid@..., SimpleTech Inc., state memory, USB flash drive
- Discussion threads 2006-12-20
- Oracle RAC & Grid Tuning with Solid State Disk, A Review - Part 2
- This is the second and final part of a review of Oracle RAC & Grid Tuning with Solid State Disk, sub-titled: Expert Secrets for High Performance Clustered Grid Computing, a part of the Rampant Press, Oracle In-Focus series....This post originally appeared on an external website
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Grid Tuning, Solid State Disk, Oracle Real Application Cluster
- Blog posts 2005-11-10
- Oracle RAC & Grid Tuning with Solid State Disk, A Review - Part 1
- Oracle RAC & Grid Tuning with Solid State Disk, sub-titled: Expert Secrets for High Performance Clustered Grid Computing is a pretty specific book covering RAC and how it can make the most of Solid State Disk SSD. The goal of...This post originally appeared on an external website
- Tags: Oracle Real Application Cluster, Grid Tuning, Solid State Disk, Oracle Corp.
- Blog posts 2005-11-08
Additional Resources
- RAM machine
- How realistic is the computer that runs off of RAM and no hard drive? With the talk of terabytes of RAM, is it more possible?Already on sale at wal-martthe asus eee machine (newegg.com) and walmert too I think is just that.512m ram4g solid state non-volatile memoryIt boots much faster. DOn't...
- Tags: Memory, dtman, RAM
- Discussion threads 2007-11-08
- Toshiba flash drives break 30 GB, Samsung offers tiny HDD, and Seagate to make flash-based hard drives
- future is 'flashed 'the trend seems to be that current platter based hard drives would be replaced by solid state memory .Soon we may have instant bootup computers and a considerable drop in power and weight requirements in portables.I believe solid state memory would work better with multicore processing...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., anjaneshbabu@..., hard drive, USB flash drive, memory, Seagate Technology LLC, Toshiba Corp., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
- Discussion threads 2007-08-28
- Podcast: Fujitsu thinks solid-state drive benefits are more hype than reality (for now)
- Solid-state drives are all the rage, but are they worth the significant premium (sometimes $1,000) over machines with convention drives? Current solid-state drives use either NAND Flash memory or SDRAM and contain no moving parts. Proponents tout several benefits of solid-state drives over conventional platter drives--faster startup, shorter seek times,...
- Tags: Fujitsu Ltd., Bill Detwiler, Podcasts, Benefits, Internet, Human Resources
- Download resources 2008-06-18
- Running Linux on FLASH disk
- Does anyone have experience of running Linux on FLASH/solid state disk? How and where can I reduce operating system writes to disk in order that Linux on FLASH does not fail after 100,000 write operations?
- Tags: Linux, paul.bilney@..., disk
- Discussion threads 2007-06-12
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