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Conduant Corporation (http://www.conduant.com), founded in 1996, develops the StreamStor™/Big River families of PCI, PCI-Express, PXI, PXI-Express and CompactPCI disk controllers for high-speed recording and playback of digital data. Solutions are available in Windows, Linux and VxWorks environments and are used in scientific research, military, aerospace and instrumentation applications. Conduant's products are guaranteed and will sustain data rates up to and beyond 400 MBytes/second. For the past two years, Conduant has improved its rankings in the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 and Fast 50 and is on the Inc. 500 2004 and 2005 lists. Conduant is a privately held company located in Longmont, Colorado. For more information, call (303) 485-2721.

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editor's note:- Conduant's CEO contributed to our article:- SSD Myths and Legends - "write endurance"

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Megabyte used to think flash was just
about saving family pictures on cards.

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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