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See also:-
NetApp
editorial mentions on STORAGEsearch.com
- editor's comments:-Network Appliance is a me-too
(late) follower rather than a leader in the enterprise SSD market. If you're
looking at NetApp for SSDs you may also be interested in looking at these
articles / directories:- SSDs
ASAPs (Auto-tuning SSD Accelerated Pools of storage),
rackmount SSDs
and PCIe SSDs.
NetApp
Milestones from Recent
SSD Market
History
In November 2008 - published details of its
thinking re SSDs.
NetApp's paper -
Flash Memory Technology
in Enterprise Storage (pdf) didn't actually say much beyond the fact
they're qualifying some products and will launch systems offerings which
include flash SSDs sometime in 2009.
...Later:- in
February 2009 - Network
Appliance announced 2 strands in its solid state storage acceleration
strategy:-
Although NetApp's
PAM is a PCIe RAM card and not a
PCIe flash SSD - it's
just a short walk from one to the other - which is why I've mentioned it here.
I have little doubt the company has already been evaluating options in this
market space.
In August 2009 - Network Appliance today
named
a new CEO.
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| the Problem with
Write IOPS - in flash SSDs |
Repeating write
operations in some apps
and some flash SSDs can take orders of
magnitude longer than predicted
by IOPS
benchmarks and latency specs.
Time goes by - in the "play
it again Sam"
scene intrinsic to databases - discrediting
long
established performance modeling metrics. | |
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are
hundreds
of articles about SSDs on StorageSearch.com |
Here, below, are some
examples.
- 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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