Nimbus Offers Drive
Agnostic iSCSI
San Francisco, CA -
February 9, 2009 - Nimbus Data Systems today announced the H-class
RH100 quad port 10GbE unified storage system.
It offers up to 60x
hot-swappable SATA (terabyte HDDs supported), SAS (450GB HDDs), or SSD drives
(7.7TB capacity if populated by supported 128GB SSDs). Drives can be mixed
within the same enclosure. The RH100 includes no-additional-charge snapshot,
cloning, and replication software, built-in
iSCSI SAN and
NAS capabilities. The
RH100 has a 4GB cache and 60Gbps internal bandwidth. Nimbus says it can be up
and running in just 20 minutes. ...Nimbus profile,
rackmount SSDs
WD Launches HD TV Router
LAKE
FOREST, Calif. - November 3, 2008 - WD today introduced its TV Media
Player.
The WD TV HD Media Player (MSRP $129.99 ) enables
consumers to easily access content on up to 2 USB drives on their HDTV .
...Western Digital
profile |
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| InServ
Selects Emulex Embedded FC-to-SATA Bridge |
COSTA MESA, Calif. -
September 2, 2008 - Emulex Corp today announced that its BR-2401
embedded storage bridge has been selected for use within 3PAR's InServ
storage servers.
Emulex's
FC-to-SATA
bridge solution enables high-capacity
SATA
hard disk drives to be
integrated into the back-end of 3PAR's InServ arrays. With this integration,
3PAR customers can take advantage of both low-cost, high-capacity SATA along
with Fibre Channel disk
capacity within the same drive chassis. ...3PAR profile,
...Emulex profile,
storage routers
ATTO Launches 16 Port SAS RAID PCIe HBA
Amherst, NY - July
14, 2008 - ATTO Technology, Inc. today introduced the ExpressSAS R30F.
The R30F provides 16 internal ports of
SAS/SATA II connectivity in
a half-height PCIe form factor.
Ed Tierney, director of marketing at
ATTO Technology said "By providing blazing-fast throughput, ATTO
ExpressSAS products are the ideal solution for transactional database
applications, e-mail servers and large server farms, in addition to demanding
video environments." ...ATTO
profile, RAID
controllers, PCIe
SSDs
Bridgeworks Spans SAS to SAN
Christchurch,
UK - September 25, 2007 - Bridgeworks launched the Tamar FSAS4400
Fibre Channel to SAS Bridge.
The Tamar FSAS4400 enables users to
connect SAS enabled
devices such as Disk Arrays,
Tape Drives and
Tape Libraries to
FC SANs using the
fibre channel protocol.
- 2 x 4Gb Fibre Channel Ports
- Ethernet Management Port
- GUI + Command Line
- 4 SAS ports (3Gb) Mini SAS
- Supports all SAS devices
- 16,000 LUNs
- 19" rackmount form factor (cPCI and other formats
available)
Bridgeworks' CEO David
Trossell said - "(Our) approach to connectivity allows vendors to use one
core tape or optical technology but easily provide different SAN interfaces
within the same internal interconnect structure." ...Bridgeworks profile,
SCSI converters
Editor's
comments:- Bridgeworks
product naming
convention refers to rivers. For example they've got
Potomac
and
Tamar.
Fortunately there aren't too many commercially viable storage interface choices
for a SAS bridge. So there's not much risk of using up all the good names - and
having to use those with negative connotations - such as
Bridge on the River
Kwai,
Tay
Bridge (Disaster) or
Bear River
(Massacre). That could be
a Bridge too Far. | |
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| Z's Laws - Predicting
Future Flash SSD Performance |
A few months ago a
reader asked me a very good question.
"Is there an industry
roadmap for future flash
SSD performance?"
That prompted other questions like...
- How fast are flash SSDs going to be in 2009?, 2010? or 2012?
- What are the technology factors which relate to flash SSD throughput and
IOPS?
- How close will flash SSDs get to
RAM SSD performance?
There wasn't a simple answer I could give at the time. Clues lay
scattered all across this web site
and in my many one on one discussions with readers about the market... |
 |
But I agreed there should be
a single place on the web where these answers could be found.
Forget
Moore's
Law. That gives you the wrong answer, and this article explains why. ...read the article | | |
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| Can You Trust Your Flash
SSD's Specs? |
Editor:- I've noticed is that
the published specs of
flash SSDs change
a lot -from the time a product they are first announced, then when they're
being sampled, and later again when they are in volume production.
Sometimes
the headline numbers get better, sometimes they get worse. There are many good
reasons for this.
The product which you carefully qualified may
not be identical to the one that's going into your production line for a
variety of reasons... ...read the article | |
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