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2.5" SSDs SAS SSDs memory channel SSDs the limericks of SSD endurance what changed in SSD year 2015? flash wars in the enterprise - MLC vs eMLC etc SSD sudden power loss management architectures Adaptive flash care management IP (including DSP) for SSDs | |||||||||||||||
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How popular is the 3.5" format for SSDs? - by Zsolt Kerekes, editor It has changed over time. A decade ago it was the most popular form factor out of the hard disk sizes. That level of interest has declined (partly due to fragmentation because there are more form factors for enterprise SSDs such as M.2, PCIe slots and DIMMs) but nevertheless 3.5 inch form factor SSDs remained in the top 20 SSD articles on StorageSearch.com in June 2016. Historically (as you can see in an archived version of this article from 2007) this form factor revealed a lot about the different types of application for high performance storage drives in legacy servers. In the 3.5" package we used to find hard disks, hybrid drives, flash based SSDs and even RAM SSDs competing for slots, often with exactly the same interfaces. You can see some examples of past 3.5" SSDs below. | |||||||||||||||
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