Based in Westminster, Colorado, Atrato Inc. (www.AtratoInc.com)
is revolutionizing the data access and storage markets by challenging the
traditional thinking on how to rapidly access stored data. Atratos system
provides unparalleled performance, linear scalability, and significantly reduced
operational costs in a self-maintaining architecture for the Entertainment, Web
2.0, IPTV, and VOD markets.
- editor's notes:- in March 2008 - Atrato launched its first product -
the Velocity1000 - a 3U rackmount with upto 50TB capacity.
Adding to
the RAID
lexicon - Atrato
have coined the term SAID for its its Self-maintaining Array of Identical
Disks.
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Are MLC SSDs Ever
Safe in Enterprise Apps? |
This is a follow up
article (published in March 2008) to the popular
SSD Myths and
Legends which, a year earlier demolished the myth that flash memory
wear-out (a comfort blanket beloved by many
RAM SSD makers)
precluded the use of flash in heavy duty datacenters.
This new
article looks at the risks posed by MLC Nand Flash SSDs which have recently
hatched from their breeeding ground as chip modules in cellphones and morphed
into
hard disk form
factors. |
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It starts down a familiar
lane but an unexpected technology twist (which arrived in my email while
writing this article) takes you to a startling new world of possibilities.
...read the
article | | |