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DV Nation

DV Nation, founded in 1996, has been distributing SSDs in the USA since 2006.

As newer, faster, and better brands emerged, we have enacted agreements to sell top brands including MTRON, Memoright, and Samsung. And we are also the authorized distributor for the Platinum HDD (the fastest hybrid hard drive) from DTS.

The DV Nation website is a community for SSD enthusiasts. It includes a forums section dedicated to nothing but SSDs - as well as a wealth of information including FAQs and even benchmarks!

We will stay on the SSD forefront, providing these and other important solutions as they emerge. Our customers include EVERYONE: Enthusiasts, server admins, Fortune 500 companies, defense contractors, universities, anyone and everyone. We have SSDs for every need.

see also:- DV Nation - editor mentions on STORAGEsearch.com

  • editor's comments:- DV Nation became the first US reseller to market SSDs online aimed at consumers and SMBs in August 2006. This is an archived copy of their SSD page from that time.

    In June 2008 they became an official distributor for RAM SSD hybrid drives from DTS.
What's the best / cheapest - PC SSD?
Editor:- I often get emails from readers which ask the above question.

An article on StorageSearch.com - called What's the best / cheapest PC SSD? - is my attempt to create a simple FAQs page - which answers the question...
click to read this article ...of why I can't answer your question - and follows on to pose some probing questions which you can ask yourself. ...read the article
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the Problem with Write IOPS

the "play it again Sam" syndrome
Editor:- Flash SSD "random write IOPS" are now similar to "read IOPS" in many of the fastest SSDs.

So why are they such a poor predictor of application performance?

And why are users still buying RAM SSDs which cost 9x more than SLC? - even when the IOPS specs look similar.
the problem with flash SSD  write IOPS This article tells you why the specs got faster - but the applications didn't. And why competing SSDs with apparently identical benchmark results can perform completely differently. ...read the article
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..........................................profile updated by vendor June 17, 2008..............................


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