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Kingston Technology Company, Inc. is the world's largest
independent manufacturer of memory products. Kingston operates manufacturing
facilities in Malaysia, Taiwan, China and Fountain Valley, Calif., including
Payton Technology Corp., Kingston's back-end processing facility supporting
memory packaging, test and logistics. With the advent of Payton, Kingston
supports all memory processing functions from receipt of wafer to completed
module. Kingston serves a network of distributors, OEMs, and retail customers in
more than 3,000 locations worldwide. For more information on Kingston, call
(800) 337-8410, or go to kingston.com.
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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 (160G in 2.5") 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 | |