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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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