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Data Robotics

Data Robotics, Inc.† develops automated data storage technologies and products for consumers and small businesses to take the pain out of making their data accessible forever. The company was founded in 2004 by an experienced team with data automation, storage virtualization and enterprise storage technology experience. Data Robotics is privately held and is backed by Greylock Ventures, Sutter Hill Ventures and RRE Ventures. The Company is located in Mountain View, CA. Company Web site: http://www.drobo.com

  • editor's note:- in June 2007 Data Robotics launched a self managing USB connected storage box called Drobo. With slots for 4x 3.5" SATA internal hard drives - the unit automatically provides RAID protection and warns when capacity is running low.
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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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