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Since the founding of the company in the year 1989, Freecom has
concentrated on being the first manufacturer to make innovative and reliable
storage solutions ready for the market backed up by outstanding service.
Freecoms product range offers the right solutions for the widest possible
range of storage requirements: from the
USB stick and
mobile hard disks, to
tiny DVD burners, and on
to NAS systems or
professional TapeWare products. In future Freecom intends to further extend its
portfolio of external hard disks, increasingly linking this with multimedia and
entertainment electronics.
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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. |
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| 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 | |