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Adaptec provides trusted storage solutions that reliably move,
manage, and protect critical data and digital content. Adaptec's software and
hardware-based solutions are delivered through leading channel partners and
Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) to provide storage connectivity, data
protection, and networked storage to enterprises, government organizations,
medium and small businesses worldwide. More information is available at
www.adaptec.com.
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Adaptec mentions recent
SSD market
history
In
September 2009 - Adaptec
announced a new platform for integrators building
hybrid storage
pools using SSDs (SSD
ASAPs). Its
MaxIQ
SSD Cache Performance Kit (which operates with upto 4x customized 32GB
Intel SSDs) includes
software that identifies frequently (hot) read data blocks and optimizes
subsequent "reads" by moving "hot" data directly into the
SSD cache for lower latencies and higher system performance.
In November
2009 -
Adaptec
released
the results of 3rd party performance testing of its new
MaxIQ
SSD Cache Performance Solution in MySQL environments.
In March
2010 - in yet another simulated benchmark
published
today related to Adaptec's
SSD ASAP caching
technology - which they leverage in their
MaxIQ SSD product - I
learned that the underlying technology was originally developed by
(surprise! surprise!) - Microsoft.
"When
our datacenter team came up with some innovative ideas around using solid state
devices as read caching devices, we determined it made good sense to license
these advances to Adaptec because Microsoft itself doesn't sell these types of
products," said David Kaefer, GM of Intellectual Property Licensing at
Microsoft. "By collaborating through licensing, Adaptec customers benefit
from a product that delivers impressive performance and cost savings over
alternatives in the market."
Editor's comments:- the
whole hard disk array acceleration market will cease to exist in a handful of
years for reasons explained
elsewhere. Maybe
the Microsofties realized it would be better to let someone else run with it -
rather than make users suffer the traditional 5 years waiting for it to
work properly - by which time it would be obsolete anyway. |
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| the Problem with
Write IOPS in flash SSDs |
the "play it again Sam"
syndrome
Flash SSD "random write IOPS" are now similar
to "read IOPS" in many of the
fastest SSDs.
So
why are they such a poor predictor of application performance?
And
why are users still buying
RAM SSDs which cost an
order of magnitude more than SLC? (let alone
MLC) - even
when the IOPS specs look similar. |
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This article tells you
why the specs got faster - but the applications didn't. And why competing SSDs
with apparently identical benchmark results can perform completely
differently. ...read
the article | | | | |
