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Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. is a global leader in semiconductor, telecommunication, digital media and digital convergence technologies with 2006 parent company sales of US$63.4 billion and net income of US$8.5 billion. Employing approximately 138,000 people in 124 offices in 56 countries, the company consists of five main business units: Digital Media Business, LCD Business, Semiconductor Business, Telecommunication Network Business, and Digital Appliance Business. Recognized as one of the fastest growing global brands, Samsung Electronics is a leading producer of digital TVs, memory chips, mobile phones, and TFT-LCDs. For more information, please visit www.samsung.com

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Squeak! - 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. 		read the article - SSD Myths and Legends
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

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  • editor's note:- one of the world's top 10 storage companies by revenue - Samsung has stated its intention to become the world's largest supplier of flash SSDs.

    The company was ranked #6 in the Top 10 Solid State Disk OEMs - based on storage searches in Q108.

    In January 2008 - Samsung announced it has developed a 128GB MLC flash SSD in 1.8" and 2.5" form factors that will ship in volume in the first half of 2008.

    Samsung's SSDs are a long way from being the fastest or densest products. Instead they are aiming to produce low cost products to fit the needs of the high volume PC notebook market.

    Some integrators, such as EasyCo have leveraged Samsung's notebook SSDs into high performance SSD arrays which deliver enterprise performance. But there are many alternatives in the enterprise SSD market - and it's not clear whether this approach will succeed compared to the efforts of some RAM SSD oems, such as Texas Memory Systems and others who have started to implement flash storage in their rackmount SSD product lines.

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