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Tom Coughlin, President, has been working for over 20 years in
the data storage field at Ampex, Polaroid, Maxtor, Seagate, 3M and other
companies. He has over 40 publications to his credit. Coughlin Associates
provides Data Storage Consulting services.
see also:-
Coughlin
Associates - editor mentions on STORAGEsearch.com
and his book
- Digital
Storage in Consumer Electronics - The Essential Guide
- editor's comments:- Tom Coughlin is once again organizing the 9th annual
Storage Visions
Conference being held at the Riviera Hotel Convention Center in Las
Vegas, Nevada, January 5 & 6, 2010.
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What's
Holding up the SSD market?
Podcast on Denali.com |
| Editor:-
March 3, 2009 - Denali.com has posted an interview with Tom
Coughlin on the subject of - 'What's Holding up the SSD market?'" |
In this 20 minute
podcast Coughlin discusses many of the uncertainties and complicating
factors that will have to be resolved before
flash SSDs can
significantly displace magnetic
media in the broad range of computing products.
Among the many insights:- many new flash SSD oems aiming at the
notebook market just don't know enough about what happens to hard disks in all
the many applications they are used in, and this is a multi-year learning curve.
- I'd certainly agree with that. In my view there are many hastily designed
SSDs in the market which merely represent what the designer could cut and paste
from their own IP, sometimes tweaked to
look good in
benchmarks.
In the server acceleration space (sometimes referred to as
tier zero storage) - Coughlin is asked what proportion of this market for hard
drives is accessible to SSDs. In line with
long established SSD
industry thinking Coughlin says that SSDs don't replace hard drives - but that
maybe about 1 in 10 drives could usefully be deployed as SSDs. Tom also talks
about the importance of Storage
Events. ...hear
the article, ...Coughlin
Associates profile | |
