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- editor mentions on STORAGEsearch.com
- editor's notes:- TheInfoPro's assertion that they are "the only
independent research network for the Information Technology industry" is
absurd. But such ridiculous positioning statements are alas all too common in
this industry.
My theory is that such sentences are often written
by company founders when they write their initial business plans. Later,
instead of being revised, these "placeholder texts" are regarded
internally as some kind of "holy writ" - left untouched by later
marketing communications scribblers. Unfortunately this kind of statement just
undermines everything else which follows. |
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| Squeak!
- SSD Myths and Legends - "write endurance" |
| Does the
fatal gene of "write endurance" built into
flash
solid state
disks prevent their deployment in intensive server acceleration
applications - such as RAID
systems? |
It was
certainly true as little as a few years ago.
What's the risk with
today's devices?
This article looks at the current generation of
products and calculates how much (or how little) you should be worried. |
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| RAM based SSDs have been
used alongside RAID for years - but
flash SSDs are
physically smaller and have bigger capacity (upto 412G in 2.5", 512G in
3.5") and are lower cost than RAM-SSDs and could actually be configured
in standard RAID boxes. F-SSDs aren't as fast as RAM based products but a single
flash SSD can deliver 20,000 IOPs - which when scaled up in an array - starts to
look interesting.
...read the
article,
storage reliability
solid state disks | |
