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Cenatek

Cenatek, Inc. is a leading provider of high speed storage systems with an installed base of over 5,000 customer sites. The company's storage products leverage patented solid state disk hardware and RAMDisk software technology to set new standards for solid state storage price and performance.

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  • editor's note:- in June 2007 - Cenatek launched the Rocket Drive Micro:- an ExpressCard form-factor, high speed solid state disk designed for use with any ExpressCard equipped laptop or desktop. It can be used with the ReadyBoost feature in Microsoft Vista.
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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 (upto 160G in 2.5", 512G in 3.5") 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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