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Cornice Inc. is the leading innovator in consumer storage
solutions that enable a new generation of pocket-able consumer electronic
devices for the world's foremost brand-name manufacturers. The one-inch Cornice
storage solutions are durable, integrated personal storage that brings new
levels of ruggedness and content capacity to these devices. Cornice storage is
built into a wide variety of consumer products, including mobile phones, MP3
players, personal video recorders, GPS devices and portable storage products.
Cornice customers consist of the world's leading consumer electronics
manufacturers. Privately held, Cornice is headquartered in Longmont, Colorado,
with integration centers in Europe, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea and Taiwan. Visit
Cornice at http://www.corniceco.com/.
see also:-
Cornice
- editor mentions on STORAGEsearch.com
- editor's epilog:- Cornice's attempt to launch a
totally new small form factor
hard disk company has
failed.
In the early days of the company it was beset by patent
disputes with established hard disk giants.
Later (as predicted in this
article - Flash Memory
vs. Hard Disks - Which Will Win? - the market for Cornice's technology
disappeared - as it could no longer meet the price challenge from
flash SSDs.
The
final chapter may have been
reported in February
2007 when the company slashed its workforce and said it was refocusing on
flash.
In the 3rd quarter of 2007 - its website has been dead.
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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. |
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| RAM based SSDs have been
used alongside RAID for years - but flash SSDs are physically smaller and have
bigger capacity (160G in 2.5") 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 | |
