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HP, the world's largest technology company, simplifies the
technology experience for consumers and businesses with a portfolio that spans
printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure. More
information about HP (NYSE: HPQ) is available at http://www.hp.com.
See also:-
HP
editor mentions on STORAGEsearch.com
- editor's comments:- does HP have an SSD strategy?
On a
historical
note - HP was the 1st company to offer SSDs as a standard option in consumer
notebooks - back in 1993 - for the HP Omnibook 300. But don't expect HP
today to be a leader in this market. I expect - it will choose a safe route -
and will follow rather than lead SSD trends.
A flavor of HP thinking
about SSDs can be tasted by these features on its own website.
Enterprise
Solid State Technology Today: Hype or Reality (Part 1) - some comments here
debunking proposition that SSDs will replace HDDs in the short term (some of
which I agree
with), and HP also disagrees with the idea that SSDs are
green.
Flash SSD Technology in
Notebooks (pdf) this classic paper Includes some industry projections from
IDC and gives detailed
comparisons of performance in HP notebooks - comparing low cost SSDs with low
cost HDDs (not the fastest products in either category - but the products you
are likely to get if you buy modestly priced notebooks).
In March
2009 - Fusion-io
announced an oem deal with HP
whose new PCIe based
StorageWorks
IO Accelerator for for HP BladeSystem c-Class servers is based on
Fusion's ioMemory SSD technology. A low level formatting tool for the HP SSD
enables users to choose what level of
over-provisioning is
used - as a performance
tweaking option. |
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Can You
Trust Flash SSD Specs & Benchmarks? |
| Sadly no! - Many
published benchmarks for flash SSD are about as reliable as bank
valuations of Collateralized Loan Obligations (just before the onset of the
Credit Crunch). |
There are many
intrinsic technical reasons why you can't believe most
published benchmarks for flash SSDs (whether done by
magazines or vendors) and why even the tests you
carefully do yourself don't give reliable results which
correlate with how the SSD will perform in real-life
applications.
We warned you of it this problem here
on StorageSearch.com last year - and now other publications
and vendors are starting to take it seriously too. ...read
the article | |
