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Imation Corp. is the only company in the world solely focused
on the development, manufacture and supply of
removable data storage
products spanning the four pillars of magnetic, optical, flash and removable
hard disk storage. With more than 50 years of data storage leadership beginning
with the development of the world's first computer tape, in 2006 Imation proudly
marked its 10th anniversary as an independent company. In addition to the
Imation brand, Imation Corp.'s global brand portfolio includes the Memorex
brand, one of the most widely recognized names in the consumer electronics
industry, famous for the slogan, "Is it live or is it Memorex?"
Imation is also the exclusive licensee of the TDK Life on Record brand, one of
the world's leading recording media brands. And as co-developer of Nickelodeon's
Npower brand of consumer electronics, Imation helps empower kids of all ages to
use the latest technology. Additional information about Imation and its brands
is available at www.imation.com or by calling 1-888-466-3456.
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Imation - recent milestones in
SSD history
and storage
history
In March 2008 -
Imation announced it
was entering the SSD market
with products oemed from Mtron.
Their SSD product line (in Feb 2009) is essentially identical to
Mtron's.
In
April 2008 - the company published a white paper called -
Flash
SSD Data Reliability and Lifetime (pdf). Starting from a description of
floating gates and going all the way up to the architecture of a
flash SSD this
paper written by Alan R. Olson & Denis J. Langlois includes good
descriptions of data failure modes, including:- erase failure, stress induced
long term leakage, disturb faults, and the potential for inadequate error
correction code coverage in MLC.
see also:- more
SSD reliability
articles, more storage
reliability articles
In March 2010 -
Imation today
announced
it has extended its RDX (removable hard disk) license agreement with
ProStor Systems through
2020.
Imation also announced that it has invested $5 million to help
advance ProStor’s technology.
Editor's coments:- RDX was unveiled in
November 2005.
Today's announcement takes the license agreement to beyond the expected lifetime
of hard disks. However, SSD
backup will also be viable in the same form factor. | |
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| We have
hundreds
of SSD articles on StorageSearch.com |
Here, below, are some
examples.
- SSD
Market History - lists product and technology milestones in the 30 years of
the SSD market upto the end of 2009.
- RAM Cache
Ratios in flash SSDs - it's important to know the underlying RAM cache
architecture - even if you're happy with the R/W and IOPS performance.
- 2010 - 1st Fizz
in the SSD Bubble? - even the dogs in the street know this is going to be a
multibillion dollar market. Greed will play as big a part as technology in
shaping the
SSD year ahead.
- the pros and cons of
using SSD ASAPs - auto tuning SSD appliances are a new category of SSD
which entered the market in the 2nd half of 2009 to accelerate servers without
needing human tune-ups. How can you tell if they are right for you? And how
well do they work?
- the Problem
with Write IOPS - in flash SSDs - long established as a useful performance
modeling metric - this article explains why some specs are exaggerated when
applied to flash SSDs - or predict the wrong results for many common
applications.
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