new directory - SSD videos
Editor:-
March 11, 2010 - whenever I'm asked -"What do you do for a living?"
- the smart ass answer I come up with is - "I waste my time so my readers
don't have to waste theirs."
Few things are so time-wasting on the
web - in my opinion - as videos which talk about the
SSD market. In 99.9% of
cases the same points have already been made - earlier, better, and about 30x
quicker on static webpages.
It's several years since a reader asked -
"Why isn't there a directory of
SSD videos on
StorageSearch.com?"
Well
- there is now. I datamined and filtered it from the tens of thousands of hours
I've spent reading and writing about SSDs. It's the smallest list of links
in any directory page I've created since the web started - and at this rate of
progress will struggle to reach double digits by the time the SSD market
ends. Less is better - when it comes to wasting your time. ...read the article
$100? - too much to pay for a 32GB MLC SSD - says OCZ
Editor:-
March 10, 2010 - OCZ
today announced
it's shipping a 32GB 2.5"
MLC
SSD for under $100.
R/W speeds
are unremarkable - at a mere 125MB/s and 70MB/s respectively - but the main
point of this launch - according to OCZ's CEO, Ryan Petersen - is to
publicize the price point and show what the company is doing "to make SSDs
more affordable to end-users."
Editor's comments:- You get
exactly what you pay for in
SSD pricing. The
big problem is knowing what you want. OCZ's new
Onyx
is a very low capacity, slowish
notebook SSD
which is unsuitable
for server apps. But it does appear to be a good price today according
to
this
comparison. (It may not look so good later.)
Imation renews RDX license beyond HDD afterlife
Editor:-
March 10, 2010 - Imation
today
announced
it has extended its RDX (removable
hard disk) license
agreement with ProStor
Systems through 2020.
Imation also announced that it has
invested $5 million to help advance ProStor's
disk backup technology.
Editor's coments:- RDX was unveiled in
November 2005.
Today's announcement takes the license agreement to
beyond the expected
lifetime of the hard disk market. However,
SSD backup will also be
viable in the same form factor.
WhipTail signs European distributor for SSD dedupe accelerator
Editor:-
March 10, 2010 -
WhipTail Technologies
today announced a Europe wide distribution and support agreement with
Consolidate IT.
"Our
clients are seeing consolidation ratios of 200-300:1 thanks to our true inline
data deduplication,"
said James Candelaria, CTO of WhipTail Tech. "With our blazing read/write
speeds (over 150K
IOPS), we
can accept the overhead hit and still deliver data exponentially faster than a
hard-disk array. The focus
becomes more of cost-per-IOP than a cost-per-GB. We land at 37 cents while a
Tier 1 HDD array is around 8 dollars."
Apacer scores max on Windows 7
Editor:- March 9,
2010 - Apacer
today said its
Giant
II DDR3 Tri-channel Overclocking Memory Module Series has scored the maximum
7.9 in the
Windows
Experience Index when running on Windows 7.
The company was the
official exclusive memory supplier at the
World
Cyber Games 2009 Grand Final, held last November in Chengdu, China.
Web-Feet tallies SSD numbers for 2009
Editor:- March
8, 2010 -
Web-Feet Research
has just published a quarterly update to its 7th
annual
report on SSD Markets and Applications (annual price $9,000).
This
update focuses on the SSD
market dynamics for the year ending
2009 covering
the Client, Enterprise, and Commercial markets.
Addressed in each of
these markets are the drivers of
SSD adoption,
price points, and
issues associated with SSD adoption. Web-Feet Research has compiled aggregate
SSD shipments and revenue by form factor and application markets covering 2009.
SSD market
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new directory - SSD videos
$100 too much for a 32GB SSD
Imation
renews RDX beyond HDD afterlife
WhipTail signs European distributor
Apacer
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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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