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How Big 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 products will be equally good.
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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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Asine

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Dataram

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RunCore

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Taejin Infotech

Targa Systems Division

Texas Memory Systems

Vanguard Rugged Storage

Violin Memory

Winchester Systems
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SSD Bookmarks

suggested by - Tim Miller, CEO Dolphin Interconnect Solutions ...
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.
DDRdrive X1 PCIe SSD - click for company profile
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 RAID support.
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