Remote Backup Systems, Inc. is the global leader in turnkey
online backup software solutions for businesses and IT Service Providers.
RBackup is the companys flagship software product and provides VARs, ISPs,
hosting companies, and IT service companies a turnkey software solution for
offering branded and secure remote data backup services to their customers. The
product is also used by a rapidly increasing number of organizations as an
in-house branch office/remote office backup solution. Through its network of
licensees, the company supports over 1.5 million daily computer backups around
the world. The company is privately held and has a twenty-year history in
Internet backup technologies, RBS is headquartered outside of Memphis,
Tennessee. For more information visit RBS online at http://remote-backup.com
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- 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 (upto 160G in 2.5", 512G in
3.5") 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 | |