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Intel, the world leader in silicon innovation, develops
technologies, products and initiatives to continually advance how people work
and live. Additional information about Intel is available at
www.intel.com/pressroom.
see also:-
Intel
- editor mentions on STORAGEsearch.com
- editor's notes:- in February 2008 -
Intel and
Micron Technology
unveiled details of their new
high speed NAND
flash technology which can sustain speeds up to 200MB/s for reads and
100MB/s for writes.
Although you can already buy
flash SSDs from
STEC which deliver the
same R/W throughput that Intel and Micron are claiming is the "fastest"
flash throughput - it's a mistake to confuse
chip performance with system
performance.
A flash SSD is a complex sub-system which can
deliver many times the intrinsic
flash memory speed
through its host interface using parallel architecture.
What Intel
and Micron are saying here is that you can soon expect a new generation of
faster dumb flash storage using their new technology. It follows that SSD
products which amplify raw flash chip performance will get faster (and
cheaper) too.
In April 2008 - an article by SanDisk focused
blogger
Savo
Lainen summarizes what's publicly known (and guessable) about Intel's SSD
plans.
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| Are MLC SSDs Ever
Safe in Enterprise Apps? |
This is a follow up
article (published in March 2008) to the popular
SSD Myths and
Legends which, a year earlier demolished the myth that flash memory
wear-out (a comfort blanket beloved by many
RAM SSD makers)
precluded the use of flash in heavy duty datacenters.
This new
article looks at the risks posed by MLC Nand Flash SSDs which have recently
hatched from their breeeding ground as chip modules in cellphones and morphed
into
hard disk form
factors. |
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It starts down a familiar
lane but an unexpected technology twist (which arrived in my email while
writing this article) takes you to a startling new world of possibilities.
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