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- 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
- IT Dojo pop quiz answers: Solid-state drives
- As of grading time, nearly 500 people had taken our solid-state drives quiz. Find out how they did, and if you would have done better. by Bill Detwiler
- Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Information Technology, Strategy, Management, Bill Detwiler, storage, hardware, solid-state drive, hard drive, it dojo, pop quiz, quiz answers
- Image galleries 2008-05-30
- 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
- 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
- Photos: Samsung bets big on flash memory
- While it continues to push high-capacity hard drives, company also says HDD, optical drives, solid-state drives, and hybrid drives will remain. by CNET News.com
- Tags: news, samsung, hard drive, hybrid drives
- Image galleries 2008-03-05
- Pop quiz: Solid-state drives
- Although solid-state drives SSDs have been in limited use since the 1990s, they are rapidly gaining ground in the laptop market--Apple offers a 64GB SSD in the MacBook Air. As SSDs fall in price and grow in capacity, they may eventually overtake the venerable hard disk as the data storage...
- Tags: Knowledge, Laptop Computer, Notebooks, Storage, Storage Management, Strategy, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Management, Bill Detwiler
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- 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
- 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
- Fujitsu's power efficient mobile hard drive and Micron's plans for SSD
- Fujitsu announced that its power efficient 2.5-inch SATA mobile HDD with 320 GB capacity will be available by February next year. Also, Micron technologies will be introducing its line of Solid State Drives by mid-2008. Fujitsu's power efficient mobile hard disk An excerpt from...
- Tags: Hard Drive, Micron Technology Inc., Mobile, Fujitsu Ltd., SSD, Serial ATA, Storage, Hardware, Arun Radhakrishnan
- Blog posts 2007-11-29
- Toshiba to start making SSDs
- Toshiba, the world's no. 2 maker of NAND-type flash memory, will start building flash-based solid-state drives SSDs for notebooks to create new sources of demands for its flash memory chips. Samsung Electronics, the world's biggest memory chip maker, and SanDisk (Toshiba's partner) already make SSDs. In fact, Micron Technology...
- Tags: Toshiba Corp., Flash Memory, SSD, Memory, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2007-12-10
- Podcast: Fujitsu thinks solid-state drive benefits are more hype than reality (for now)
- Fujitsu isn't jumping on the solid-sate bandwagon just yet. The company believes conventional hard drives are a reliable storage technology that offers better overall performance for less money and will continue to dominate the storage market for next four to five years. by Bill Detwiler
- Tags: Podcast, Hard Drive, Notebook, Performance, Benefit, Quiz, Fujitsu Ltd., Cell, Performance Management, Storage, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Hardware, Bill Detwiler
- Blog posts 2008-06-18
- 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
- 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
- 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
- SanDisk adds new twist to hybrid drives with its Vaulter Disk prototype
- SanDisk unveiled a prototype of its Vaulter Disk drive, a solid state PCIe module that attaches to and complements the standard hard drive. An excerpt from IDM: SanDisk's 8 to 16 GB cards on the other hand, have enough capacity to hold an operating system, quite...
- Tags: Hard Drive, Disk, SanDisk Corp., Arun Radhakrishnan
- Blog posts 2007-11-18
- 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
- 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
- Researchers at Arizona State University develop new massive memory technology
- Wow!This could have far greater consequences than just flash memory sticks.Providing costs can as indicated be controlled, solid state hard drives could indeed become a reality. Look at the physical size of 1GB of laptop memory and imagine it's now has a 1000 times more capacity at 1TB. It's mind...
- Tags: lastchip, Arizona State University
- Discussion threads 2007-10-31
- 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
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