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ACARD Technology is a Taiwanese-based company specializing in
storage IC design. The
company develops SCSI, IDE and SATA chips as well as
RAID storage devices.
ACARD products are used by PC, Macintosh, Linux and Unix workstation users all
around the world. ACARD Technology has years of development and design
experience for SCSI,
IDE and
SATA hardware so it
knows what the market needs and understand customers' requirements. Since 1999
ACARD Technology has been actively investing in the development of key
technologies aimed at the fast-developing network storage market as well as the
management and protection of critical data on storage devices. ACARD products
are now available from the company's distributors around the world.For more
information, please visit our website at www.acard.com or call +886(2)8512 2290
and e-mail to sales@acard.com
see also:-
ACARD
- editor mentions on STORAGEsearch.com and
ACARD's
SSD page
ACARD mentions in
SSD market
history
In July 2008 - ACARD unveiled the
9010
RAM Disk - a 5.25" form factor, 64GB SATA compatible
RAM SSD.
In a
test report
sequential write performance on a single SATA port is quoted as follows,
29MB/s (512B), 100MB/s (4kB), and 151MB/s (64kB).
Throughput for 2
ports was approximately 2x a single port. Unlike a
flash SSD - the
random write performance was similar to the sequential (in some cases better.)
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| Surviving SSD
sudden power loss |
Why should you care
what happens in an SSD when the power goes down?
This important design
feature - which barely rates a mention in most SSD datasheets and press releases
- has a strong impact on
SSD data integrity
and operational
reliability.
This article will help you understand why some
SSDs which (work perfectly well in one type of application) might fail in
others... even when the changes in the operational environment appear to be
negligible. |
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| don't all PCIe SSDs
look pretty much the same? |
When you look at the
photos and headline specs for high speed PCIe SSDs - it's easy to come away with
the impression that they all look the same and have about the same performance.
After
all - how different can they be?
But don't let the experience of the
2.5" SSD market -
in which clusters of consumer SSD vendors use the
same or similar
controllers and hover
close together inpopular
(consumer) performance rankings - give you the wrong idea about
PCIe SSDs.
In
this market the performance limits and capabilities of the SSD aren't set by an
old hard disk interface
and package limitations.
In the PCIe market the products you get are
limited only by the imagination of the designers - tempered by the guesses of
marketers who are trying to predict the optimum (most salable) features for an
ideal SSD. |
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