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Hitachi Global Storage Technologies was founded in 2003 as a
result of the strategic combination of Hitachi's and IBM's storage technology
businesses. By the end of 2003, Hitachi GST became the industry's second largest
hard disk drive
manufacturer with $4.2 billion in revenue. The company's goal is to enable
users to fully engage in the digital lifestyle by providing access to large
amounts of storage capacity in formats suitable for the office, on the road and
in the home. The company offers customers worldwide a comprehensive range of
storage products for desktop computers, high-performance servers and mobile
devices. For more information on Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, please
visit the company's Web site at www.hitachigst.com.
See also:-
Hitachi
links & mentions on STORAGEsearch.com
- editor's comments:- in December 2008 -
Hitachi and
Intel announced they were
jointly designing a new range of high IOPS flash SSDs with
Fibre Channel and
SAS interfaces for
the server market. The new products, which will be exclusively marketed by
Hitachi GST - are expected to ship in Q1 2010.
In
February 2009 - Hitachi
GST announced it is acquiring Fabrik, the parent company of
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| Can You Trust Your Flash
SSD's Specs and Benchmarks? |
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...
And here's another thing to worry about...
The
enterprise flash SSDs which you benchmarked yourself - may surprise you by
running much slower when deployed in your own applications due to
common "halo" errors which are implicit in the set ups of many
performance test suites which were originally designed for HDDs. ...read the article | |
