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Absolute Analysis

Absolute Analysis designs, develops and manufactures protocol test tools. Absolute Analysis Investigator solutions capture 100% of data at full line rates and enable product developers to increase their time to market through innovative approaches for testing environments. With over 15 years of experience in the protocol test tools industry, the Investigator multi-protocol technology makes Absolute Analysis a leader in the field. The company’s goal is continuous improvement and innovation by tailoring and enhancing their platform to meet the changing needs of the storage, networking, consumer product and defense industries. Absolute Analysis is committed to providing solutions for developing standards as the technology continues to advance, including additional speeds, ports and protocols. Absolute Analysis is headquartered in Newbury Park, California.

Link Level Protocol Support for: SAS, SATA, Fibre Channel, Ethernet & Serial FPDP

Upper Level Protocol (ULPs)Support for: iSCSI, FCP-SCSI, FC-VI, UDP/IP, TCP/IP, FICON and many others.

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Megabyte's storage epic nearly came
to an abrupt end due to some weak links.
Squeak! - SSD Myths and Legends - "write endurance"
Does the fatal gene of "write endurance" built into flash solid state disks prevent their deployment in intensive server acceleration applications - such as RAID systems?
It was certainly true as little as a few years ago.

What's the risk with today's devices?

This article looks at the current generation of products and calculates how much (or how little) you should be worried.
read the article - SSD Myths and Legends
RAM based SSDs have been used alongside RAID for years - but flash SSDs are physically smaller and have bigger capacity (160G in 2.5") and are lower cost than RAM-SSDs and could actually be configured in standard RAID boxes. F-SSDs aren't as fast as RAM based products but a single flash SSD can deliver 20,000 IOPs - which when scaled up in an array - starts to look interesting. ...read the article, storage reliability solid state disks

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