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..........	EasyCo EasyCo LLC is the original developer of patent pending Managed Flash Technology, which can deliver 50x faster write speeds in flash-SSD arrays, built from commercial off the shelf flash SSDs than the intrinsic speed of an individual flash drive without using MFT.
	EasyCo's products include enterprise performance flash SSD arrays - ranging from desktop systems to 1U, 2U and 3U rackmount SSDs. MFT products are currently supported under Linux. Windows solutions and storage appliance solutions should be available soon. End-user pricing for the Linux supported product starts at under $2,500 and extends upwards to over $50,000 depending on the configuration. EasyCo weclomes inquiries from systems integrators or oems who want to discuss licensing MFT techmology for use in their own products. EasyCo has offices in Pennsylvania and California,
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	high IOPS NAS enterprise flash SSDs from EasyCo	EasyCo LLC- HQ address and links
		Easy Computing Company 220 Stanford Drive Wallingford PA 19086 USA Tel:- +1 610-237-2000 Toll Free:- 800-470-2756 email:- sales@easyco.com url:- http://www.easyco.com	MFT Storage Appliances - products overview & pricing

see also:- EasyCo - editor mentions on STORAGEsearch.com

• editor's notes:- in August 2007 launched its "Managed Flash Technology" a storage system which includes a RAID-5 array of flash SSDs with a patent pending drive management layer which results in system write performance that is 100x faster than the bare solid state flash drive.
  
  MFT can also have a beneficial effect on arrays of hard disks, although the effect is not as dramatic as for flash SSDs. As well as increasing hard disk thru-put significantly, it can also save drives and power because it creates an environment where RAID-5 and RAID-10 have identical write performance. Thus, in larger HDD systems, MFT reduces drive counts per unit of usable space by approximately 30%
  
  In February 2009 - MFT licensee, WhipTail Technologies, announced details of its iSCSI compatible 2U rackmount RAID protected SSDs.
  
  see also:- article:- Understanding Flash SSD Performance (pdf) - This article compares in detail read / write performance and IOPs of commercial flash SSDs compared to hard disks. Explaining why the write cycle can become a bottleneck in FSSDs - the article outlines EasyCo's patent pending approach in managing arrays of flash.
  
  In November 2009 - EasyCo released USB SuperCharger Software - a driver for USB 2 flash storage which can apparently speed up writes by 2x to about 5x.

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