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Future Storage Ltd., with headquarters in Ashford,
Middlesex, (in the UK) is a specialist UK distributor and reseller of flash
SSDs from leading manufacturers. The list of SSD manufacturers includes (among
others):- Memoright, Mtron, Intel, Soliware, IsLion, Transcend, Adtron,
Samsung, OCZ, Veritech and Supertalent.
- editor's comments:- from SSD market
history
I first became aware of Future Storage in October
2007 when
Memoright asked me to
list them as the sole UK distributor in their SSD ads. StorageSearch.com is
focused on the US market - and my contacts in Memoright were in China. But we
thought it would be worth pointing any UK readers to an authorized place they
could conveniently buy these
popular (at
the time) products.
I created this profile page for Future Storage
in August 2009 to see if there was enough reader interest in UK based SSD
VARs to make it worth creating a separate SSD VAR directory. I concluded there
wasn't. This was the same conclusion I had come to regarding the US.
In
2009 it was
very difficult for VARs to operate sustainable businesses simply from selling
SSDs (unless they were in the enterprise segment). The markets were too small,
products changed very fast, and it was easier in the case of
consumer SSDs for
users to buy directly from the manufacturer's own web sites.
In 2009 I
asked Phil
Robins - who at that time was the Sales Director of Future Storage
started - when his company had started selling SSDs. He said "I 1st started
to sell only Memoright Dual Plus Drives and SSDs in August 2007. Added
Mtron in Feb 2008 and
then grew from there..."
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lot of mysterious behavior which isn't fully revealed by
benchmarks and
vendor's product datasheets and whitepapers. Underlying all the important
aspects of SSD behavior are
asymmetries
which arise from the intrinsic technologies and architecture inside the SSD.
Which symmetries are most important in an SSD?
That
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are, and judging how your selected SSD compares will give you new insights
into SSD
performance,
cost and
reliability.
There's
no such thing as - the perfect SSD - existing in the market today - but
the SSD symmetry list helps you to understand where any SSD in any memory
technology stands relative to the ideal. |
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