New edition - the Top 10
SSD Companies
Editor:- January 7, 2010 - StorageSearch.com today published
the 11th quarterly
edition of the
top 10 SSD oems -
ranked by search volume in the 4th quarter of 2009.
This is always
one of the most popular articles on our site. I know that many SSD companies
themselves are nervous and eager to see how they've fared in this important list
which predicts future winners in the market based on the world's leading SSD
focus group. I've tried to be more direct with my own analytical comments too -
even if it means repeating some things I've already said in other places -
because I know that most of you don't have the time to read hundreds of SSD
articles. ...read the
article
TweakTown Tests RunCore's "SandForce inside" SSD
Editor:-
January 7, 2010 - a benchmark
review
article in TweakTown.com concludes that RunCore's upcoming Pro
V 2.5" SSD - which
uses SandForce's
SF-1500
SoC is the fastest SATA
2 SSD they have tested.
Toshiba Samples 128GB mSATA SSDs
Editor:- January 6,
2010 - Toshiba
announced
it is sampling 128GB mSATA MLC SSD modules (30mm x 50.95mm x 4.75mm ) aimed
at the netbook
PC market.
Sequential R/W speeds are 180MB/s and 70MB/s
respectively. Weight is 9g.
ioSafe Launches Disaster Proof Backup SSD
Editor:-
January 5, 2010 - ioSafe
launched the ioSafe Solo SSD - an
ultra rugged USB /
eSATA
external
flash SSD with
upto 256GB capacity ($1,250) designed to provide data protection against
disasters such as fire, flood, and building collapse.
ioSafe offers
a "no questions asked"
Data Recovery policy
to help customers recover from any data disaster including accidental deletion,
virus or physical disaster.
"The new ioSafe Solo SSD is the world's most rugged and versatile
desktop external hard drive. It can be used alone or in conjunction with any
offsite or online backup
strategy to add real time, zero data loss, synchronous disaster protection to
any data that sits vulnerable," said ioSafe CEO, Robb Moore.
SMART Samples "SandForce inside" SSDs
Editor:-
January 5, 2010 - SMART
is sampling the
XceedIOPS
SATA - SLC and "enterprise grade" MLC flash SSDs in
1.8" and
2.5" form factors
- based on the SF-1500 processor from SandForce.
Performance
is upto 30K IOPS
random read/write. SMART uses a combination of
write attenuation
technologies to attain a 5-year projected lifetime for its 400GB MLC
XceedIOPS SATA model ($2,900 oem qty price) in an environment that demands
250MB/s sustained write and a 40% duty cycle.
"The enterprise SSD market appears to be entering a period of
impressive growth. Well-positioned to satisfy the requirements of enterprise
deployments, we expect our XceedIOPS SATA SSDs will provide low cost, superior
performance, low power, and high capacity flexibility," said Alan
Gulachenski, SMART's VP and General Manager, Enterprise Solid State Storage.
RunCore Ships 1st PXI Express SSDs
Editor:- January
5, 2010 - RunCore
has started shipments of the 1st SSDs aimed at the
PXI Express market (a standard
which brings PCIe performance and functionality into the robust modular form
factor popular in automated instrumentation
test systems).
RunCore's
3U CPCIe\PXIe SSD card provides upto 768GB
MLC or 384GB SLC
capacity and has sustained R/W speeds upto 400MB/s. Available with industrial
operating temperature range and MIL-STD-810F processing, the module provides a
fast purge rate of
5GB/s.
A-DATA Brightens Up its Website with a Bird
Editor:-
January 5, 2010 - A-DATA
has decided it will be more successful in the SSD market by adopting a
hummingbird in its corporate communications.
(Although not the humming
bird shown here below.) |
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It calls this rebranding theme
- "Fly, Catch, Go!" (I didn't make this up.) Presumably 99% of the
marketing budget went into drawing the pictures - which didn't leave much for
the text.
Editor's comments:- someone who has mice all over his
website does have a view on this. This is just the way to stand out from the
crowd - but is not a substitute for real content or ideas.
See also:-
Animal
Brands and Metaphors in the Storage Market and the (not entirely accurate
but amusing) showing the
bird.
2.5" SSD Market Fights Back
Editor:- January 4,
2010 - StorageSearch.com
disclosed today that the gap in search volume between
PCIe SSDs (most
popular form factor) and 2.5"
SSDs (#2 form factor) narrowed in December 2009 - rather than widened.
The
imminent availability of consumer priced 6Gbps SATA SSDs coupled with growing
competition in the 2.5" SAS SSD market has boosted the acceleration ceiling
in traditional disk form factors. That provides more reasons for customers to
look again at the 2.5" form factor. Reader pageviews for PCIe SSDs were
nearly 4x higher than a year ago.
Solid State Drives -
market research & analysts
Storage News January 2010
Editor:- January 4, 2010 -
there will be lots of new product announcements this week coming in from CES and
Storage Visions.
USB 3 SSDs will open up new
markets - offering eSATA type throughput in a simple to use way.
SATA 3 SSDs will raise
the performance ceiling for consumer
2.5" SSDs.
In
the industrial and server markets - we'll see many SSD market gaps being filled
- helped by the growing availability of
SSD IP.
And
in the NAS market - this
could be the year that AoE
finally takes its place as a mass market standard -
7 years after its
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other
storage news on this
page
New edition - Top 10 SSD Companies
TweakTown Tests
RunCore's Pro V SSD
Toshiba Samples 128GB mSATA SSDs
ioSafe
Launches Disaster Proof Backup SSD
SMART Samples "SandForce inside" SSDs
RunCore Ships
1st PXI Express SSDs
A-DATA adopts a bird
2.5" SSD
Market Fights Back
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| There
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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