SSD news - November
2010 - week 4 |
Apple pulps PhotoFast's "compatible
SSD"
Editor:- November 30, 2010 - a report in
DailyTech.com
says that Apple has exerted
pressure on PhotoFast
to withdraw its recently launched
SSD for the
MacBook Air .
As you can see by clicking on the product link
(above) which was featured in our news page at the time - the withdrawn page
now gives an http 404 page error.
new article - bad block management in flash SSDs
Editor:-
November 26, 2010 - StorageSearch.com
today published a new article -
principles of
bad block management in flash SSDs.
It's a non technical
introduction to the thinking behind one of the many vital functions inside a
flash SSD controller.
The new article -
started
out life this morning as a long email reply to one of my readers. ...read the article
Kove launches 20 Gigabytes/s RAM SSD
Editor:-
November 22, 2010 -
Kove recently
demonstrated a 4U InfiniBand
& FC compatible
terabyte class RAM SSD
product line (with under 25 µS latency) called
Xpress Disk - which can sustain
20GB/s throughput via 6x InfiniBand ports and 600,000 read IOPS and 500,000
write IOPS.
Editor's comments:- despite costing an order of
magnitude more - the market for
RAM SSDs hasn't been
killed by flash.
On the contrary - all the vendors of high end RAM SSDs that I've
spoken to in the past year say they have been pleasantly suprised to see demand
for this type of product growing. The reason? - When a bunch of flash SSD
accelerated servers hits a storage performance bottleneck - the only way to go
faster is to interpose RAM SSDs. And unlike
the old days
when the first terabyte RAM SSDs became commercially available (2003) - users
today are already amenable to the concept of SSD acceleration.
IBM replaces HDDs with SAS SSDs from SMART in supercomputer
Editor:-
November 22, 2010 - SMART
(a
SAS SSD company)
announced that
its
XceedIOPS SAS 2.5" solid state drive (SSD) will be used in new models
of IBM POWER7
supercomputers instead of hard drives.
John Scaramuzzo, General
Manager for SMART's Storage Business Unit said - "The selection criteria
for SSDs has moved beyond HDD replacement, as innovative designers such as those
at IBM use the qualities of enterprise-grade SSDs to significantly enhance their
products' performance, data integrity, and reliability."
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