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will be the Market for PCIe SSDs? |
This is a new emerging
market so it's impossible to be precise.
But search volume based data
reveals some useful comparisons.
In Q1 2009 - PCIe was the 2nd most
popular form factor overall for SSD related searches. (The #1 being
2.5" SSDs.) In
the same quarter the single most popular company profile viewed by readers
was PCIe SSD evangelist Fusion-io.
To put that into context:- there are over 1,000 storage companies profiled on
StorageSearch.com, of which 120
actively market SSDs.
There's little doubt that the availability of
PCIe SSDs will bring new customers into the server acceleration SSD market.
The PCIe SSD approach suits a Google style architecture - in which
the applications infrastructure consists of large numbers of democratically
equal powered servers.
The traditional FC-SAN
SSD approach fits in better with a hierarchical applications infrastructure
- with a lean top and fat bottom. However, the servers at the bottom can also
get speedup benefits from a DAS style
SATA SSD
implementation .
I think both SAN and PCIe SSDs will exist side by
side for many years serving different types of application - even within the
same enterprise. For more about this - see my articles - my
2009 - Year of SSD
Market Confusion and
Market Trends in the
Rackmount SSD Market.
The PCIe SSD market has low entry barriers
from a technical design point of view. And the high asps in the server market
will make it look like a voluptuous alternative for recession weary consumer
SSD product marketers.
Simply add a PCIe interface to a
flash SSD controller,
an array of flash memory, some firmware and some ASIC glue. Chip companies like
Marvell can supply
nearly everything you need. It's much simpler than getting started with a 2.5"
SAS SSD product - for
example.
I wouldn't be surprised to see 30 to 50 oems marketing
PCIe compatible SSD cards and systems by the middle of 2010. Although not all
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PCI Express SSDs Technical
Pros and Cons
The great attraction of PCIe for SSD oems is
that it can support a wide range of performance options with throughput upto
16GB/s, and much lower attachment costs than the
alternatives.
The
older busses like PCI and cPCI also provide performance which is adequate for
many applications.
Bus connected SSDs have been around since the
earliest days
of the SSD market.
The advantage of this approach is high
throughput and low latency compared to SSDs connected via traditional hard disk
style interfaces like
SAS,
SATA,
fibre-channel or
InfiniBand.
But
there are disadvantages too which include:-
1 - Bus style
interfaces reduce the available market for the SSD oem. Because older servers
may not have the interface, or perhaps the interface (for example Sun's SBus) is
proprietary and is only available in a small range of models.
2 - Bus
interfaces tend to have shorter permissable cable lengths - which restrict how
such SSDs can be connected.
3 - Bus interfaces usually don't include
intrinsic end to end error detection and correction. If the physical arrangement
of the SSD pushes the speed and cable lengths too far - then errors can arise in
the bus connect - which have to be dealt with in the associated driver.
...Later:-
May 13, 2009 - Dolphin's
CTO, Venkat Krishnan emailed this article correction.
"Dolphin's
StorExpress addresses concerns of PCIe direct attached SSDs raised in (2) above.
It includes support for different types of PCIe interfaces (ExpressModule, AMC,
etc.). Multiple PCIe SSD cards can be used without requiring multiple PCIe slots
in the server. The storage can be collocated at distances of up to 300m from the
server and can also be potentially shared by more than one server." | |
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SSD Bookmarks
suggested
by - Tim Miller, CEO Dolphin Interconnect Solutions
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Here's an article written by or
about Dolphin
Integrating
Solid State Storage in a PCI Express Clustering Interconnect (pdf)
Tim
Miller says he chose this article because "Using PCIe SSDs as Direct
Attached Storage (DAS) is a hot topic these days. This paper describes
extending the benefits "outside the box" to e-PCIe SSD (external) by
detailing a number of new e-PCIe SSD usage models using Dolphin's
StorExpress.
This includes simple DAS, with virtualization and HA support for up to 2TB for
slot limited rack or blade servers to the ability for integration in PCIe
cluster environments for multi-server connectivity and eventually shared storage
creating 'networked' DAS - the flexibility of SAN, simplicity of DAS and the
performance of SSD."
Other SSD article suggestions...
Design
Tradeoffs for SSD Performance - written by Nitin Agrawal (University of
Wisconsin) and Vijayan Prabhakaran, Ted Wobber, John D. Davis, Mark Manasse and
Rina Panigrahy at Microsoft
Research presented at the annual
USENIX conference.
Tim
Miller says "This paper is a useful primer on technical trade-offs for SSD
performance appropriate for non-engineers who want to have a foundation of
knowledge."
Other SSD bookmark suggestions...
"The
're-debate' of SAN vs. DAS takes on a new dimension with PCIe SSD and now e-PCIe
SSD - I thought a couple recent blogs and articles were interesting"
DAS:
the biggest surprise at NAB '09 - by Robin Harris (StorageMojo)
DAS
VS. SAN - by George Crump, and published on
InformationWeek
Editor:-
thanks Tim for sharing your SSD links.
see also:-
Dolphin
- editor mentions on StorageSearch.com
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SSD Market's
Biggest Shifting Trends?
Editor:- July 1, 2009 In a fast growing
market like SSDs - how do
you spot the most significant trends?
I discuss the 2 most significant
changes in the past year and how I think they will affect the future market in
my new preface to the
SSD buyers guide
published today. Because of its relevance to this page you're viewing now -
I've cut and paste part of it here below.
"The astonishing rise
in vendors marketing
PCI Express SSDs -
concurrent with 4x growth in reader pageviews in this subject. These
factors clearly predict that PCIe SSDs will become a significant part of the
population of SSDs inside the enterprise server box. A mere 25% separates
reader pageviews between this - and the most popular SSD form factor - for
2.5" SSDs."
Crossing the T's in STEC's SWOT
Editor:- June 23,
2009 - what are the biggest threats to STEC?
The
PCIe SSD market and
server oems designing their own
2.5" SSDs are
among the many topics analyzed in a new article on our
home page today.
Fast IOPS Hard Drive Concept Resurfaces
Editor:-
June 22, 2009 - last week Dataslide announced
it was close to
productizing
its revolutionary hard drive technology.
Why mention it here? On
these SSD pages...
We all thought it safe to assume
there
aren't going to be any faster hard drives.
I know most of you don't
look at the HDD news
any more. That's why I'm repeating it here. It may be out of context
technology-wise - but it's definitely hard core SSD subject matter market-wise.
If successful - Dataslide's technology (which we first reported on 7 years ago)
would deliver similar IOPS and throughput performance as a mid range PCIe SSD
- but at the media cost of a hard drive.
That would add more
complicated choices to an already complex market for inside the box server
accelerators.
NextIO Unveils PCIe flash SSD
Editor:- June 17, 2009
- NextIO today
announced
it will demonstrate a 12 slot
PCIe flash SSD system,
designed in collaboration with
Marvell later
this month.
Each slot will be capable of over 200,000 IOPs and offer
400GB capacity.
Editor's comments:- there are nearly as many
companies making PCIe SSDs
today - as there are making 2.5"
SSDs. And it wouldn't surprise me to see the PCIe SSD oem count to become
the larger of the two.
With the growing number of
SSD controller and IP
companies in the market it's getting
easier to design
SSDs.
An electronics college graduate could probably build a
passable demonstration product as a summer project. But it's another matter
entirely - how well such a college demo unit would work in a variety of
applications and OS platforms. There's no shortcut to market experience. Users
will have to judge how much it's worth becoming beta sites for the mass of new
SSD companies flooding into the market.
NextIO is better
funded than most
students. The most recent
$15
million funding round announced earlier this month took their total to
over $55 million.
the Most Popular Storage Products
Editor:- June 8,
2009 - StorageSearch.com
today published a new article -
the Most Popular
Products on StorageSearch.com (2007 to 2009)
What can we learn
about changes in the
storage market and the
changing interests of readers by looking at how the most popular storage
products viewed by our readers have changed in recent years?
I
couldn't remember what these products were. And I didn't know the answer. So I
delved into the log files. That revealed some trends which seem obvious now -
but which I hadn't consciously noticed before. ...read the article
Fusion-io will Offer Consumers PCIe SSD Accelerators
Editor:-
June 2, 2009 -
Fusion-io
announced it will ship a
consumer optimized
version of its enterprise PCIe SSD family in July.
Priced at
$895, the ioXtreme has 80GB MLC
flash capacity and average throughput of 520MB/s. Supported OS's include:-
Windows XP, Vista and Linux.
Editor's comments:- the ioXtreme
marketing package ends the confusion about the blurring boundaries in the
PCIe SSD market
between enterprise SSDs and pro consumers. This product has been optimized for
the consumer market.
- Out goes expensive SLC
flash (consumers don't need it - although most
enterprise apps
do). MLC is less than 1/2 the price of SLC for the same capacity (and that
gap is widening).
- Toss out 80% of the capacity (and memory cost) which you'd find in a
single slot enterprise card too. A single user doesn't need it.
- Winding down the performance from an enterprise class product like
Fusion-io's ioDrive Duo (1.4GB/s
R/W) to about 1/3 of that saves a bundle on fast glue hardware. It makes the
cache memory cheaper. The SSD controller processor can run slower and you
don't need onboard RAID logic (or if you do - it can be cheaper).
Those
kinds of value optimized decisions can lead you to a product like the
ioXtreme - which is still many times faster than any
2.5" SSD and
satisfies speed hungry consumer budgets without cannibalizing sales to
enterprise customers. It's a clever marketing move and I'm sure it will attract
huge interest.
SMART Enters PCIe SSD Market
Editor:- June 1, 2009
- SMART Modular
Technologies disclosed it had used Marvell's
SSD controller in
SMART's new XceedIOPS
PCIe SSD which offers
upto 400GB capacity and 140,000 random IOPS performance.
PhotoFast Promises 1,500MB/s SSD
Editor:- June 1,
2009 - PhotoFast
showed a faster (version 2) prototype of its G-Monster
PCIe SSD today at
Computex.
Read
performance is claimed to be 1,500MB/s.
SSD Article Pageviews Grow 98%
Editor:- June 1,
2009 - StorageSearch.com
disclosed today that page views for the popular
SSD Buyers Guide
increased 65% in May 2009 compared to the year ago period.
Average page views of the top 5 SSD articles in May 2009 were 98%
higher than the top 5 SSD articles a year ago.
The #1 incoming
search word to the mouse site was "SSD" which occurred
2.4x as often as a year ago. These metrics indicate continued growth
in reader activity related to the SSD market despite the
recession.
"Nearly every IT publication now has something to say about SSDs"
says StorageSearch.com's editor, Zsolt Kerekes. "The SSD content explosion
includes a lot of froth and inaccurate analysis - but also a lot of good
stuff too. The best of the these get honorable mentions in
the SSD Bookmarks."
"As
you're on the PCIe SSD page - I looked up the stats for what's been happening
here recently. In May 2009 pageviews for the main PCIe SSD page increased 27%
compared to 3 months ago (in Feb 2009)."
Inside PCIe Gen3
Editor:- May 19, 2009 - Electronic Design today published a
new article -
PCI
Express And The PHY(sical) Journey To Gen 3.
"PCIe Gen3 will
make possible legacy channel functionality at 8 Gbits/s per lane."
The
article looks at the legacy of PCIe and the interactions between error
correction, data transmission and power saving strategies. And it describes the
architectures and strategies required for the next generation of speedup.
See
also:- SSD Controllers
/ IP, storage chips,
PCIe SSDs
Debunking Tier 0 Storage Babble
Editor:- May 18,
2009 - in a new article published today on StorageSearch.com I explain why
- I Tire of - "Tier
Zero Storage"
You don't need to waste any of your precious
brain cells by investing "tier 0 storage" with an importance this
travesty of
storage jargon
really doesn't deserve. ...read the article
New SSD Bookmarks - from Dolphin Interconnect Solutions
Editor:-
May 13, 2009 - Dolphin's
CEO, Tim
Miller shares his
SSD Bookmarks
with readers of
StorageSearch.com.
In
addition to the interesting articles and blogs suggested today, Tim has answered
for me the question of what to call externally connected PCIe SSDs. You may be
ahead of me here already - "e-PCIe" is to PCIe what eSATA is to
SATA. But it was new
to me. I've had an interesting time this morning reading the articles. I'm
sure you will too. ...read the article
DDRdrive Launches Low Cost PCIe RAM SSD
Editor:- May
4, 2009 - DDRdrive
emerged from stealth mode and launched the
DDRdrive X1 - a
PCIe compatible
RAM SSD with onboard
flash backup. |
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Load / restore time
is 60S. I/O performance is over 200K IOPS (for 512B blocks). For 4kB blocks
IOPS is:- 50k (reads) and 35K (writes). R/W throughput is 215MB/s and
155MB/s respectively. Capacity is 4GB. OS compatibility:- Microsoft Windows
(various). Price is $1,495.
Using Microsoft Windows built-in
RAID support, DDRdrive
X1's can be spanned (capacity), striped (performance), mirrored (redundancy),
and RAID-5 configured.
Editor's comments:- the DDRdrive X1
looks competitively priced for accelerating database applications in which the
hot files can be squeezed into a capacity range from about 4GB to 12GB. Above
that - you get into the region of entry level
rackmount SSDs
and high performance PCIe
flash SSD cards
from companies like Fusion-io
and Texas Memory Systems.
There's definitely a gap in the market for this scale of product (low
entry price, low capacity - high IOPS). For the past year or so DDRdrive
shipped an earlier generation of its SSD accelerators exclusively to a large
enterprise for secret internal projects.
...Later:- May 7,
2009 - I can now reveal the "large enterprise" customer was
Intel.
Dolphin's New StorExpress SSD Ships in May
Editor:-
April 21, 2009 - MAGMA
and Dolphin
jointly
announced
they have collaborated to develop an improved version of the latter's
previously announced
StorExpress
(2U rackmount PCIe
connected SSD product line) which will ship next month.
Capacity
options include 0.5TB (under $20K), 1TB and 2TB. It achieves 270K read and write
IOPs (512 bytes to 4KB blocks) and up to 2.8GB/s of sustained bandwidth. Latency
is less than 50µS. The StorExpress enclosure can be positioned 1,000 feet
away from the host server using fiber.
"PCI Express, with its
tight linkages to microprocessors is the natural technology for creating high
performance systems" said Tim Miller, CEO Dolphin. "By partnering
with Magma we have created an exceptional solution - simple, elegant, cost
effective yet capable of delivering world class performance and flexibility."
OCZ Unveils miniPCI-E Notebook SSDs
Editor:- April
17, 2009 -
OCZ today
unveiled its
1st miniPCI-Express
compatible SSDs.
Aimed
at notebooks OCZ miniPCI-E options include:- 16GB or 32GB capacity, and
2 interface options.
- SATA
models - 110MB/s read and 51MB/s write speeds
- PATA
models - 45MB/s read and 35MB/s write speeds
HP and Fusion-io Demonstrate Scalabity of PCIe SSD Accelerated
ProLiant
Editor:- April 6, 2009 - Fusion-io announced
today that its SSD technology has enabled HP to achieve 1
million IOPS (using 2KB random 70/30 read/write mix) and 8GB/s sustained
throughput from a single ProLiant server.
Working together in HP's
ProLiant engineering labs in Houston, technologists from HP and Fusion-io built
a system using 5x 320MB ioDrive Duos and 6x 160MB ioDrives in a single HP
ProLiant DL785 G5 server, running with 4 Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors.
"These
results show the true power of combining our PCI Express and NAND flash
technology with HP's ProLiant architecture," said David Flynn, CTO of
Fusion-io.
Editor's comments:- Fusion-io's SSDs were the
secret ingredient in an
IBM
"million IOPS" story last summer.
The point of this kind
of story is not the performance number, or the throughput, but to show the scalability
of the solution. End-users like scalable speedups - because they know that
no matter how well an accelerator solves their problem today - if the
application is successful - the growth in demand for it will mean they'll need
yet another speedup 3 to 6 months later.
See also:-
million
IOPS - editor mentions on StorageSearch.com
Super Talent Joins Over Crowding PCIe SSD Market
Editor:-
April 1, 2009 - Super Talent
Technology pre-announced its
RAIDDrives
SSD product line.
This connects via
PCIe and supports up
to 2TB of RAID5 protected MLC flash storage. R/W performance is upto 1.2GB/s
and 1.3GB/s respectively. More details are promised in June 2009.
New PCIe SSD Aims at PC Acceleration Market
Editor:-
March 26, 2009 - PhotoFast
has unveiled a
PCIe SSD for the
Vista / XP market - the
G-Monster-PCIe
Turbo Speed SSD - expected to ship in June.
Capacity options
include:- 256GB, 512GB and 1TB. Both
MLC and SLC options
are available. The flash array includes onboard
RAID protection. R/W
speeds are quoted as 750MB/s and 700MB/s respectively.
Editor's
comments:- Until now -there has been a theoretical gap in the market. Such
products have only supported enterprise OS's such as Linux, Solaris and
Windows Server because, frankly, consumers can't afford them. Financial
traders and analysts might be a potential market for these accelerators - but
I can't see many consumers deciding to forego upgrading their car and upgrading
their PCs instead.
Dolphin Launches PCIe Connected Rackmount SSD
Editor:-
March 12, 2009 -
Dolphin
launched the
StorExpress
a rackmount SLC
flash SSD with upto 960GB capacity.
The
PCIe connected SSD has
R/W throughput upto 2,700MB/s and 50 microsecond access latency. Dolphin quotes
a figure of 270,000 IOPS but the initial datasheet doesn't break out IOPS
figures for reads and writes. The StorExpress can be located upto 10m from the
host bus using copper cable and 300m with optical fibre.
Fusion-io Raises the PCIe SSD Ceiling - Announces ioDrive
Duo
Editor:- March 11, 2009 - Fusion-io announced
an enhanced version of its ioDrive - called the
ioDrive Duo which
will ship next month.
Capacity of this
PCIe SSD has doubled
to 640GB with 1.2TB planned for the 2nd half of 2009. Performance has been
enhanced too. The ioDrive Duo can easily sustain 1.5 Gbytes/sec of read
bandwidth. Read IOPS performance is 186,000 (4k packet size). Write IOPS
reaches 167,000 (4k packet size).
Fusion-io says the performance for
multiple ioDrive Duos scales linearly, allowing any enterprise to scale
performance to 6Gbytes/s of read bandwidth and over 500,000 read IOPS by using
just 4 drives.
Data integrity and reliability have been engineered into
the design at many levels providing triple redundancy for a single storage
component. These factors include:-
- Multi-bit error detection and correction
- Patent-pending Flashback protection, offering chip-level N+1 redundancy and
on-board self-healing so that no servicing is required
- Optional RAID-1 mirroring between two ioMemory modules
StorageSearch.com's SSD market
model suggests that the market opportunity for PCIe SSDs (in server
acceleration roles) is as large in revenue as the total market for
2.5" SSDs . There
are enough competing alternative vendors in the PCIe SSD market today to
minimize the risks for end-users and systems integrators - who choose this
route for their SSD speedups.
TMS Joins the Surging Tide for PCI Express SSDs
Editor:-
March 10, 2009 -
Texas Memory Systems
today unveiled a PCIe SSD
that will ship in Q2 2009.
The
RamSan-20 has 450GB
of RAID protected SLC flash with 80 microseconds latency. R/W bandwidth is
700MB/s and 500MB/s respectively. Sustained IOPS are:- 120,000 random read, and
50,000 random write. Endurance is rated at 12 years (assuming 25% continuous
writes). List price is about $18,000.
With the number of PCIe SSD
oems already in double digits and expected to go north of 30 in 2010, I asked
TMS's President, Woody Hutsell what was different about their offering?
He
agreed with my observation that the technical barriers to entering this market
are low. But he said that unlike most other PCIe SSD vendors - this is the
14th generation of SSD for TMS and they already have 18 months of customer
experience with flash SSDs in the most demanding server applications with their
earlier RamSan-500. The implication being - their new flash SSD will work in
enterprise accelerator apps - without nasty surprises - and TMS knows what to
tell the customers who need tuning advice. They've been training up additional
technical support people to cope with the anticipated ramp in questions from new
customers.
Woody Hutsell also said the new RamSan-20 has a very low
server load footprint which enables users to realistically configure multiple
units, and the onboard controller ensures that no data will be lost in the event
of a power outage or server crash. (In some enterprise flash SSD array designs
the controller functions such as flash block remapping are done by the host
server - which theoretically could result in data corruption if the host CPU is
abruptly terminated.)
As StorageSearch.com
has already reported - reader interest in PCI Express SSDs has surged in the
past 9 months. If that translates into buying behavior - there will be more than
enough business for the companies in the market.
OCZ Joins the PCIe SSD Crowd
Editor:- March 9, 2009
- OCZ Technology Group
unveiled a PCIe SSD
last week at CeBIT.
The
Z Drive uses MLC
flash and has 1TB capacity. According to a show report on
Tom's
Hardware - R/W speed is 600MB/s and 500MB/s respectively.
HP oems Fusion-io's SSD Accelerator Technology
Editor:-
March 3, 2009 -
Fusion-io
announced an oem deal with HP
whose new PCIe based
StorageWorks
IO Accelerator for for HP BladeSystem c-Class servers is based on
Fusion's ioMemory SSD technology.
A low level formatting tool for the
HP SSD enables users to choose what level of
over-provisioning is
used - as a performance
tweaking option.
NetApp Starts Walking the SSD Talk
Sunnyvale,
Calif. - February 3, 2009 - NetApp unveiled 2 strands in its solid
state storage acceleration strategy today - support for Texas Memory
Systems' RamSan-500 flash SSD array and also a new Performance
Acceleration Module.
Support for the 100K IOPS
RamSan-500 SSD is
supplied by NetApp's V-Series storage controller and Data ONTAP software. The
RamSan-500 can be utilized as a large, fast networked cache, or otherwise
partitioned to maximize storage efficiency.
Meanwhile - the new
PAM
provides a read cache (16GB to 80GB) implemented by PCI Express DRAM cards.
These enables NetApp customers to significantly increase application
performance in FC disk arrays by 35% using 1/2 the number of hard disks
typically used in over-provisioned HDD arrays. Alternatively customers can
deploy lower cost, higher density SATA HDDs instead of FC disks while still
maintaining performance and making substantial savings in costs. ...Network Appliance
profile, ...Texas
Memory Systems profile
Editor's comments:- Although NetApp's
PAM is a PCIe RAM card and not a PCIe SSD - it's just a short walk from
one to the other - which is why I've mentioned it here. I have little doubt the
company has already been evaluating options in this market space.
January 2009
StorageSearch.com disclosed that in the
1st 4 weeks of January pageviews for
PCIe SSDs had
overtaken all other form factors except
2.5" SSDs.
December 2008
StorageSearch.com disclosed that PCIe
SSDs had risen into the top 10 subjects viewed by readers in November.
November 2008
Violin Memory announced
availability of a new 1010 Memory Appliance - a fast 4TB SLC flash SSD in a
2U rackmount. Its patent pending non blocking architecture delivers over 200K
random Read IOPS and 100K random Write IOPS (4K block). Interface options
include:-
PCIe,
Fibre Channel and
Ethernet.
Micron Technology
demonstrated prototypes of fast PCIe flash SSDs with 800MB/s throughput, and
hinted that it might demonstrate 1GB/s SSDs soon.
October 2008
Virtium Technology
entered the SSD market with its LeanSTOR - an AMC form factor SSD module for
the AdvancedTCA market.
Other AMC/ PMC SSD oems include:-
Aitech Defense Systems,
Asine,
BiTMICRO Networks,
Curtiss-Wright,
INTELLIAM,
Micro Memory and
Vanguard Rugged
Storage.
September 2008
Fusion-io unveiled
the ioSAN - a 10GbE or Infiniband
attached flash SSD on PCIe form factor which will ship in 2009.
August 2008
Violin Memory said it had
delivered 1 million IOPS on a single interface port (a world record) using the
latest version of its Violin 1010 memory appliance. - Violin also said that its
new technology would deliver 100K write IOPS on a flash SSD version of their
product (which hasn't been announced yet.)
Fusion-io added RAID
protection to the flash memory array in its Fusion-io PCIe SSD and improved R/W
performance.
June 2008
Fusion-io said it's
adapting its flash SSDs to provide acceleration in HP's BladeSystem servers.
STORAGEsearch.com disclosed that the
new PCIe SSD page (this page) appeared in the
top 20 subjects viewed
by readers in May.
May 2008
STEC launched a PCIe mini
card form SSD with 32GB capacity and 55MBps / 25MBps R/W speeds.
April 2008
STORAGEsearch.com
published a new separate directory of
PCIe, PCI & cPCI SSDs
March 2008
Fusion-io announced it
had secured $19 million funding for its ioDrive - a PCIe compatible flash
SSD.
December 2007
RunCore launched the
E-drive, a PCIe SSD
with upto 256GB capacity and R/W speed upto 400MB/s or 200MB/s respectively.
November 2007
SanDisk launched a PCIe
compatible 16G flash SSD.
October 2007
Addonics Technologies
launched what it called a "low cost large capacity SSD" platform. It's
a PCI card that can be installed with 4 Compact Flash cards with inbuilt
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