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Looking at the Fibre-Channel Solid State Drives Market

With the number of SSD manufacturers in the market now approaching 100 - I thought it was time to create a separate listing of SSD oems who offer native Fibre-channel interfaces.

FC-SSDs can help enterprise users accelerate the legacy applications which they already run now in what I often refer to as the "distress purchase."

This is the situation where users didn't envisage SSDs in their original thinking at all, but turn to SSD acceleration (often in desperation) to fix application performance problems they're experiencing caused by bottlenecks in their traditional multi OS server / rotating disk array infrastructure.

That's a different scenario to clean sheet new applications in which SSDs are being designed in at the outset - and where alternative interface technologies such as PCIe may be economically more viable. As the life-time of core enterprise business applications can be 5 to 10 years - I expect the use of SAN SSDs will grow and overlap with the use of newer cheaper alternatives (even within a single organization) for many years to come.

To understand the SAN SSD market today - it helps to have some historical perspective.

The first fibre-channel storage products came to market in 1994. In those days high performance SSDs were mostly attached by a computer bus (such as SBus or VME) or a DAS connection such as parallel SCSI.

When we published our SSD Directory here on storagesearch.com in 1998 nearly all the SSD products in the market had SCSI interfaces. But that changed in 2000 when SAN compatible SSDs - ranging from 5.25" form factors to rackmounts started to appear in the market.

The companies listed on this page make FC-SSDs in form factors ranging from 3.5" upto rackmount. They include both flash SSDs and RAM SSDs.
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FC SSD oems list
BiTMICRO Networks

Curtis

EMC

Hitachi

Intel

RunCore

Solid Access Technologies

Solid Data Systems

STEC

Taejin Infotech

Texas Memory Systems

Third I/O

Violin Memory

ViON

VMETRO

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