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hyperI/O

A privately held Limited Liability Company founded in 1999 and located in Boulder, Colorado, hyperI/O LLC designs, develops, and markets disk I/O performance measuring and monitoring software utility solutions targeted to help address the fundamental performance gap between computer systems and storage I/O. hyperI/O LLC has designed, developed and currently offers a premier, unique software solution called called hIOmon, the File I/O Performance Monitor.

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Iin March 2010 - hyperI/O announced that its hIOmon software supports the collection of Microsoft "TRIM" related SSD metrics - which can be captured during normal, everyday application use and without any OS, file system, file, or application changes required.

In November 2011 - hyperI/O announced availability of its Disk I/O Ranger software analysis tool for Windows environments. The company says this will help users diagnose and understand disk storage access performance problems and to to verify that QoS levels are being met at the application/file/device level. It could also simplify the evaluation of auto-tiering SSD appliances by collecting real-time metrics.
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flash SSD capacity - the iceberg syndrome
Have you ever wondered how the amount of flash inside a flash SSD compares to the capacity shown on the invoice?

What you see isn't always what you get.
nothing surprised the penguins - click to read  the article There can be huge variations in different designs as vendors leverage invisible internal capacity to tweak key performance and reliability parameters. ...read the article
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Surviving SSD sudden power loss
Why should you care what happens in an SSD when the power goes down?

This important design feature - which barely rates a mention in most SSD datasheets and press releases - has a strong impact on SSD data integrity and operational reliability.

This article will help you understand why some SSDs which (work perfectly well in one type of application) might fail in others... even when the changes in the operational environment appear to be negligible.
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