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| Footnote:- the Higher Cost
of Higher Performance Although the starting point for SSD performance is that old flash versus RAM debate the performance of the fastest products (like those listed here) is a business as well as a technical decision. Make the product too expensive and not enough customers will buy it. Customers need a feature set (speed, capacity, interface and price) that suits their application. Getting the speed right is just a small part of the mix (although in the context of this article - it's the most important Manufacturers can leverage the intrinsic memory performance in 2 main areas
The race to market the fastest SSDs is getting more competitive.
The market will decide. Stay tuned to the SSD page to see what happens next. Other related articles:- the SSD Buyers Guide theTop 10 SSD Companies Can you trust flash SSD specs? Debunking Tier 0 Storage Babble Storage Market Outlook:- 2010 to 2015 the Problem with Write IOPS - in flash SSDs Tuning SANs with SSDs - classic (2002) article RAM SSDs versus Flash SSDs - which is Best? Z's Laws - Predicting Future Flash SSD Performance SSD ASAPs - Auto-tuning SSD Accelerated Pools of storage Calling for an End to Unrealistic SSD vs HDD IOPS Comparisons Using SSDs to Boost Legacy RAID Performance - classic (2004) article ...Later:- this article - the Fastest Solid State Disks - has become one of the top 5 articles viewed by readers. Although most users don't buy or need the absolutely "fastest" products - the table above gives them an idea of the performance limits available in the form factors which suit their applications. Users understand very well that if they're buying an SSD that's slower than the models listed above - they can reasonably expect it to be cheaper too. There's usually a spread of performance in each form factor - and the figures listed above - should help them recognize when the product they're being offered is an older design and a long way behind the state of the art. You'd be surprised how many times I get contacted by irate SSD product marketers who say something like "I've got a rackmount SSD which is faster than the 2.5" models listed - so why isn't my product listed too." In 99% of such cases the rackmount SSD which they are suggesting I add to this list is 2x to 10x slower than some other product which is already listed in that physical size - so the answer is obvious. "If the customer has got a 2.5 inch size slot - then they can't fit your rackmount product in." I get dialog about this list every week - and the discussion with vendors of the nominated products often goes very deep - resulting in some cases in a request by me to remeasure the performance if I don't believe the specifications. In some of the highest volume form factors I've started to list 2-3 "fastest" products. That's intended to be helpful in situations where that particular market splits by major interface or some other technical / application factor. |
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| 1.0" SSDs | 1.8" SSDs | notebook SSDs | 2.5" SSDs | 3.5" SSDs | rackmount SSDs | InfiniBand |
| flash SSDs | PATA SSDs | SATA SSDs | PCIe SSDs | FC SSDs | SAS SSDs | RAM SSDs |