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Snap Appliance - (circa 2004)

Snap Appliance™ is the worldwide volume leader in network attached storage (NAS) solutions. With the industry's largest installed customer base, Snap is the expert at providing simple, scalable storage solutions for leading enterprises and organizations across a wide range of industries. The Snap Server™ product family represents true business value, providing innovative technology and rich feature sets that allow organizations to leverage their information assets. Snap's established channel partnerships and world-class service and support team ensure a rewarding customer experience. Snap Appliance is headquartered in San Jose, California. More information is available at www.snapappliance.com.

see also:- Snap Appliance - editor mentions on STORAGEsearch.com

Snap Appliance - archived website (2003)

  • July 13, 2004 - Adaptec announced today the signing of a definitive agreement for the acquisition of Snap Appliance.

    but that wasn't the end of the story

    June 30, 2008 - Adaptec announced that it had sold its Snap Server NAS business, including the brand and all assets related to Snap Server networked and desktop storage appliances, to Overland Storage
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The vaporware at 40,000 feet smelled clean
and fresh. Megabyte's personalized balloon
was the last remaining asset from his VC
funded "lighter than air" storage company.
Z's Laws - Predicting Future Flash SSD Performance
A few months ago a reader asked me a very good question.

"Is there an industry roadmap for future flash SSD performance?"

That prompted other questions like...
  • How fast are flash SSDs going to be in 2009?, 2010? or 2012?
  • What are the technology factors which relate to flash SSD throughput and IOPS?
  • How close will flash SSDs get to RAM SSD performance?
There wasn't a simple answer I could give at the time. Clues lay scattered all across this web site and in my many one on one discussions with readers about the market...
But I agreed there should be a single place on the web where these answers could be found.

Forget Moore's Law. That gives you the wrong answer, and this article explains why. ...read the article
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