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Pliant's SSD benchmark video

Editor:- March 15, 2010 - Pliant Technology today published benchmark results to illustrate the capability of its 3.5" SAS SSDs when used in arrays.

The measurements performed and validated by OakGate Technology were performed on an array of 16 SSDs and are summarized in a video.

"We tested Lightning EFDs under conditions that closely mirrored the data throughput demands of today's mission-critical data centers..." said Bob Weisickle, CEO and founder of OakGate. "..even more impressive was the fact that these phenomenal performance numbers remained stable and consistent over time, which is a critical requirement for today's mission-critical 24x7 data centers."

Editor's comments:- when (like me) you're used to seeing SSD IOPS that look like telephone numbers, and IOPS that have a lot of GB/s in them you have ask yourself - what is this vendor really saying?

I think the point Pliant is making is that if you are an oem who wants to design a rackmount flash SSD which has the performance potential of a proprietary architecture such as Texas Memory Systems, or an array of PCIe SSDs such as Fusion-io, but you want to stay in the comfort zone of SAS SSDs while avoiding the "EMC use it so it must be expensive" feel associated STEC - please take a look another look at their products. The tag line on their home page says "Do more for less." (I've seen worse.) I've seen better SSD videos though. It was another 6 minutes of my life wasted (compared to reading the text).


SSDs - reaching for the Petabyte

Editor:- March 12, 2010 - next week StorageSearch.com will publish an industry changing article - "SSDs - reaching for the Petabyte."

What will the PB SSD look like? - It won't fit in your notebook. But it won't be much larger than an old style desktop PC either. The 1st models will be 2U rackmounts.

When will it appear? What technology problems do SSD designers have to solve to get there? What about the storage architecture that the PB SSD fits into? How much electrical power will it consume? And... you may be curious - how much will it cost?

All these questions and more - will be discussed and answered in the most brain busting and thought provoking SSD article I've researched and written in the past 5 years. Planning for the future is easier if you know the direction and the destination. Stay tuned to this channel - as ever - "leading the way to the new storage frontier."


new directory - SSD videos

Editor:- March 11, 2010 - whenever I'm asked -"What do you do for a living?" - the cutest answer I come up with is - "I waste my time so my readers don't have to waste theirs."

Few things are so time-wasting on the web - in my opinion - as videos which talk about the SSD market. In 99.9% of cases the same points have already been made - earlier, better, and about 30x quicker on static webpages.

It's several years since a reader asked - "Why isn't there a directory of SSD videos on StorageSearch.com?"

Well - there is now. I datamined and filtered it from the tens of thousands of hours I've spent reading and writing about SSDs. It's the smallest list of links in any directory page I've created since the web started - and at this rate of progress will struggle to reach double digits by the time the SSD market ends. Less is better - when it comes to wasting your time. ...read the article


$100? - too much to pay for a 32GB MLC SSD - says OCZ

Editor:- March 10, 2010 - OCZ today announced it's shipping a 32GB 2.5" MLC SSD for under $100.

R/W speeds are unremarkable - at a mere 125MB/s and 70MB/s respectively - but the main point of this launch - according to OCZ's CEO, Ryan Petersen - is to publicize the price point and show what the company is doing "to make SSDs more affordable to end-users."

Editor's comments:- You get exactly what you pay for in SSD pricing. The big problem is knowing what you want. OCZ's new Onyx is a very low capacity, slowish notebook SSD which is unsuitable for server apps. But it does appear to be a good price today according to this comparison. (It may not look so good later.)


WhipTail signs European distributor for SSD dedupe accelerator

Editor:- March 10, 2010 - WhipTail Technologies today announced a Europe wide distribution and support agreement with Consolidate IT.


Web-Feet tallies SSD numbers for 2009

Editor:- March 8, 2010 - Web-Feet Research has just published a quarterly update to its 7th annual report on SSD Markets and Applications (annual price $9,000).

This update focuses on the SSD market dynamics for the year ending 2009 covering the Client, Enterprise, and Commercial markets.

Addressed in each of these markets are the drivers of SSD adoption, price points, and issues associated with SSD adoption. Web-Feet Research has compiled aggregate SSD shipments and revenue by form factor and application markets covering 2009. SSD market research & analysts


Viking's DOM MIL certified

Editor:- March 3, 2010 - Viking Modular Solutions today announced that its SATA Cube3 128GB DOM (launched in March 2009) has successfully completed tests pursuant to the MIL-STD-810F specification.


WD offers faster SLC and affordable MLC for disparate 2.5" SSD markets

Editor:- March 3, 2010 - WD Solid State Storage is shipping a new range of 2.5" 128GB SATA SLC SSDs - for high reliability 24/7 embedded markets - called the WD SiliconDrive N1x.

R/W speeds are upto 240MB/s and 140MB/s respectively. Write endurance is quoted as 701GB/Day - compatible with 5 year limited warranty. And data integrity (non-recoverable error rate) is better than 1 in 1015 bits read.

"The WD SiliconDrive N1x SSDs are the newest addition to our SiliconDrive product family, which has shipped several million units since the 1st products were introduced. SiliconDrive SSDs have consistently met critical OEM application requirements for high reliability, high performance and long product deployment cycles," said Michael Hajeck, senior VP and general manager of WD's solid state storage business unit.

The WD SiliconDrive N1x SSDs feature patented and patent-pending WD technologies combined with NCQ and Windows 7 TRIM command support for high data integrity, long product life and sustained performance levels throughout the drive's service life without the need for an external refresh utility, media over-provisioning or forced idle times used by many SSDs available today.

Editor's comments:- today WD also announced its entry into the SSD notebook market. WD's SiliconEdge Blue 2.5" MLC SSDs offer capacity upto 256GB (MSRP $999), R/W speeds of 250MB/s and 170MB/s.

To avoid confusion from the branding point of view - it looks like WD has retained the 5 year market proven "SiliconDrive" brand for its enterprise products while introducing "SiliconEdge" as its consumer / MLC brand. To protect its reputation WD says the new notebook design has passed over 250,000 hours of testing to prevent the kind of flaky SSD problems which have occurred in the past when competing oems shipped incompletely verified products.


FalconStor tunes Violin's SSD

Editor:- March 2, 2010 - FalconStor today announced technical and VAR channel support for Violin Memory's 2U rackmount FC flash SSD - the Violin 1010 .

Although the headline specs of this very fast flash SSD are substantially the same as when it was launched in November 2008 the 2 important things which have changed are:-
  • the price point - $32,000 for the 500GB (lite capacity) version, and
  • the availability of SSD ASAP-like features implemented by FalconStor's SafeCache and HotZone software.


STEC samples slim SSDs with deep roots

Editor:- March 2, 2010 -STEC has started sampling a new family of SlimSATA and SATA-CF 32GB/64GB flash SSDs for use in embedded markets.

Performance is 15,000 / 6,000 R/W IOPS and R/W transfer rates are up to 135MB/s and 130MB/s respectively.

Editor's comments:- in a way this is STEC going back to its roots. In the server market - where it is better publicly known - STEC is dependent on the success of partners like EMC whose secret ingredient in the SSD cola experience is bottling the water.

STEC is also vulnerable to being substituted out for other 2.5" SSDs (or sideswiped by PCIe SSDs) at any time.

But STEC knows how to market to designers in embedded markets. These are currently much smaller than the other segments in the classic SSD market penetration model. Nevertheless it's a way of boosting revenue.

And here's something else to think about... which links together the oldest segments in the flash SSD market with the newest one for SSD backup - which is still at the birth stage.

The important feature in these new products is the ratio of sleep mode power to operating mode power - which is 10 to 1. That's not too far off the ideal ratio (100 to 1) it needs to reach in the next 5 years to support the concept of putting petabytes of SSD archive storage into 2U racks. More about that later... In the meantime experience gained in the unsexy (but reliability obsessed) embedded SSD modules market can be viewed as a long term investment in what will be the biggest market for SSD shipments long after the current SSD market bubble.


PCIe SSD adoption accelerates Fusion-io's revenue

Editor:- March 2, 2010 - Fusion-io disclosed today it has experienced more than 80% quarter-over-quarter sales growth and more than 300% sales growth year-over-year.

This emerged in an announcement that Silicon Valley veteran Dennis Wolf has joined the company as senior VP and CFO to help it manage its rapid growth as it continues to expand into new markets around the globe. Wolf has led several public and private companies as CFO, COO and CEO. He brings more than 30 years of leadership experience in high-growth technology companies, with work in finance and other disciplines. Most recently, he served as executive VP and CFO at MySQL where he was integral in MySQL's growth strategy and its ultimate sale to Sun Microsystems in a transaction valued at $1 billion.

"In the 20 years I've been working in this industry, I've never seen a company grow this fast and I believe we are well poised to triple our growth in 2010," said Jim Dawson, senior VP of worldwide sales for Fusion-io. "As a young company experiencing such incredible, rapid expansion, Dennis' financial expertise and broad understanding of the marketplace will be essential to our continued ability to meet customer demand."

Editor's comments:- the last time I wrote an article about a bunch of storage companies with triple digit annual revenue growth was in 2004 - and the top 2 out of those 4 were in the SSD market too. Although Fusion-io is a privately held company and doesn't disclose financial details - it's sometimes easy to tell which companies everyone seems to be talking about.


Super Talent's Cryptic USB3 SSD

Editor:- March 2, 2010 - Super Talent Technology today announced imminent availability of a new encrypted USB 3 flash SSD - with upto 256GB capacity.

When I asked for more technical details I was told the datasheet isn't ready yet. The USB 3.0 SuperCrypt is a true SSD (with wear-leveling). Internally the module (95 x 34 x 15.4 mm) is a SATA SSD with a USB bridge chip.


RunCore's new Express Card SSD / USB 3.0 adapter

Editor:- March 1, 2010 - Among the many SSDs which RunCore will show at CeBIT 2010 this week is an Express Card flash SSD designed for notebooks.

As well as providing upto 64GB capacity (R/W speeds 120MB/s and 90MB/s) - the Express 34 module also provides 2x USB 3.0 ports with connectors for linking the notebook to external devices. See also:- events.


ioSafe's SSD Bookmarks

Editor:- February 26, 2010 - ioSafe's CEO, Robb Moore - shares his SSD Bookmarks today with our readers.

You know StorageSearch has been banging on about SSDs (it seems like) forever.

But in recent years zillions of other sites have fizzed into the SSD bubble too.

Now you and I both know that the quality of SSD content across the web is - well "random" is a polite way of putting it - but that means a little part of it must be quite good too! I'm biased and don't have time to waste browsing SSD chatter in other publications. That's why I started the SSD bookmarks series last year - to get suggestions from industry leading figures - which give you and me a clue into what they see as important. ...read the article


PCIe SSDs Dominate Product Views

Editor:- February 24, 2010 - 3 out of the top 5 most popular featured SSDs here on StorageSearch.com are now PCIe SSDs.

Rankings are now listed and updated daily in the SSD buyers guide - just below the news digest for the current month.

Unlike the top 10 SSDs (quarterly feature which is based on editorial search volume and excludes ad pageviews ) - the new "products popularity" indicator is based on ads.

In previous years we only listed the #1 product ad in each month.

It provides an alternative useful way of seeing what people are looking at, and maintains a tradition which I started in my online directories back in 1996.

Ever wondered why the editor can spot forward looking trends? - Our web stats have historically predicted market behavior upto 3 years in advance in high value markets. (Keeping the dust off the crystal ball helps too.)


Aitech's new XMC SSD

Editor:- February 18, 2010 - Aitech launched a new model in its family of PMC/XMC SSDs.

The M224 has 128GB capacity, and hardware RAID options which support the onboard flash array. Sustained sequential R/W speeds are 170MB/s and 120MB/s respectively. The M224 is available in air-cooled and conduction-cooled versions as well as in 3 levels of ruggedization depending on shock, vibration and humidity requirements. OS support includes VxWorks, Windows and Linux.


Solid State Storage Backup - new directory

Editor:- February 16, 2010 - StorageSearch.com launched a new directory for - Solid State Storage Backup.

Although these are still early days for the S3B market - the new page will help you filter out news, articles and messages from the S3B pioneers which otherwise might get lost in the clamor of the SSD market bubble.

"In the early days of the disk to disk backup market the old tape vendors scoffed at the idea that hard disks might one day steal their market. Now most of those old tape dinosaurs are gone and the hard disk backup market reigns supreme" said editor, Zsolt Kerekes.

"Despite that - I expect that most vendors in the D2d / VTL market today will not even be dreaming about the possibility that SSDs will one day transform their own cozy market too. But they urgently need to start having fresh ideas about what backup and recovery are really for? The S3B page will chronicle the news from the nascent Solid State Storage Backup market - and help to accelerate those changes."


Reliable SSDs are Rocket Science

Editor:- February 15, 2010 - NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, launched last week, uses an SSD error correction architecture designed by ECC Technologies.

Phil White, inventor of this scheme says - "You can think of the SDO spacecraft as containing a parallel-transfer, fault-tolerant SSD that uses DRAM chips instead of NAND Flash chips. It uses exactly the same PRS ECC that I have proposed for use in solid state disks. All of the data collected by SDO is encoded by the PRS encoder, stored in the SSD and decoded by the PRS decoder. Multiple DRAM chips can fail with no loss of data or performance."

Editor's comments:- understanding the data failure modes in solid state storage arrays isn't rocket science. But rocket science thinking (high mission cost of data failure without the cushion of a service engineer) - is a critical starting point in the design of SSDs with high data integrity.

Here are some other "SSDs in space" links


Micron acquires NOR flash leader

Editor:- February 9, 2010 - Micron today announced an agreement to acquire privately held Numonyx in an all-stock transaction worth approximately $1.3 billion.

This strengthens Micron's position as one of the world's leading memory companies, with a broad portfolio of DRAM, NAND and NOR memory products.

Analyst comment:- from Objective Analysis - "By acquiring Numonyx, Micron is buying the current leader in the NOR flash market - which has been a difficult one for nearly all participants."


SSD Market Projections - from Denali & Gartner

Editor:- February 9, 2010 - Denali Software published an article - the Evolving Enterprise SSD - which comments on detailed SSD market size predictions from Gartner related to SSD form factors and interfaces.

If you look at the curves related to form factors - you can infer that StorageSearch.com's readers are about 3 to 4 years ahead of the market in their search volume.

Another way of looking at it is that our readers have always been ahead of the SSD market adoption curve - and have been historically and statistically significant in shaping the SSD market penetration curves by their actions in either designing SSDs or buying them.


Foremay samples 200K IOPS class PCIe SSD Cards

Editor:- February 8, 2010 Foremay is sampling its EC188 D-series 2nd generation fast PCIe SSDs with capacity upto 4TB (MLC) and 1TB (SLC).

The new SSDs deliver sequential speeds up to 1.6 GB/s for reading and 1.5 GB/s for writing, and R/W IOPS up to 200K/180K.

"IOPS is one of the major pain points to be addressed in the deployment of today's high-end and mission-critical servers and workstations," said Dr. Jack Winters, Foremay's CTO and cofounder. "We hope that our new EC188 D-series PCIe SSDs, with greater than 100K IOPS and more than 1GB/s bandwidth, can help solve problems in the majority of those computing applications where IOPS or speed is the bottleneck."

Editor's comments:- Foremay's new PCIe SSDs aim at the same kind of customers who currently buy from Fusion-io and Texas Memory Systems both of whom have been shipping this type of product for over a year already. Customer qualification by OS and application type is a prerequisite to sales in this part of the market. Foremay will have to be aggressive on price to get volume customers interested enough to test its products.


Solaris, SSDs and Sun-Oracle - past failures - future challenges

Editor:- February 3, 2010 - in a new article today I look ahead to the next 5 years of Oracle, Solaris and SSDs.

I also look back and give you my list of Sun's biggest market successes and failures in the past 20 years. ...read the article


Flash Memory Basics - for enterprise SSD buyers

Editor:- February 3, 2010 - a new article - Flash Memory Basics - posted today by blogger Brad Diggs looks like it could be part of an educational series laying the groundwork for Sun Microsystem's PCIe SSD product family.

I noticed it because it cites one of my own favorite articles - Are MLC SSDs Ever Safe in Enterprise Apps?.


Silicon Motion SSD SoCs - Ready for 20nm

Editor:- February 1, 2010 - Silicon Motion announced that its SSD controller shipments increased over 50% year-on-year - in the most recent quarter and now account for almost 10% of its ($87 million annual) corporate revenue.

The company said - that the vast majority of controllers that are shipping are for 40nm and 30nm NAND flash and they are on track to deliver controllers for 20nm NAND flash that is expected to be available in the 2nd half 2010. In the 4th quarter 2009 the company also began shipping 3-bits per cell MLC controllers.


25nm Flash will Double SSD Capacities in Q2

Editor:- February 1, 2010 - Intel and Micron today announced they are sampling the world's 1st 25nm NAND flash memory.

This gives 8GB MLC (classic 2 bit) flash memory in a stackable TSOP. The new chips will enable higher density SSDs to ship in volume in Q2.


Clarifying SSD Pricing - where does all the money go?

Editor:- January 27, 2010 - StorageSearch.com today published a new article - Clarifying SSD Pricing.

SSDs are among the most expensive items of computer hardware many of you will ever buy - with high end models costing more than high end servers.

Understanding the factors which determine SSD costs is often a confusing and irritating process - not made any easier when market prices for identical capacity SSDs can vary more than 100x to 1! This new guide suggests simple tactics to help you. ...read the article


LSI will Compete with Fusion-io

Editor:- January 26, 2010 - LSI and Seagate today announced they have collaborated on designing PCIe SSDs for the enterprise accelerator market which will sample in Q2 2010.

Editor's comments:- LSI is approximately the 163rd company to enter the SSD market (not counting SSD SoC makers - which would push the score to about 185).

Partly this is due to a strong suction effect from the SSD market bubble - and partly an inevitable step given that the high end of the RAID controller market is going to disappear. There's little point in spending money aggregating IOPS in an array of hard disks - if the result costs more, is slower and is less reliable to operate.


Avere Adds SLC SSD Options to 2U ASAPs

Editor:- January 26, 2010 - Avere Systems today announced it's shipping new SLC flash SSD options in its FXT Series 10GbE NAS compatible SSD ASAPs.

The 2U Avere FXT 2700 appliance (from $82,500) features 64GB of DRAM, 1GB of NVRAM, and 512GB of SLC flash SSD. FXT clusters can scale to 25 appliances and support millions of operations/sec and tens of GB/sec throughput.
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AboUnion

ACARD Technology

Active Media Products

Adaptec

A-DATA

Addonics Technologies

Adtron

Advanced Media

Afaya

Aitech Defense Systems

Altec ComputerSysteme

Apacer

APRO

Asine

Astute Networks

Attorn

Austin Semiconductor

Avere Systems

Axxana

Barun Electronics

BiTMICRO Networks

Cactus Technologies

CoreSolidStorage

Corsair

Curtis

Curtiss-Wright

Dane-Elec Memory

DataDirect Networks

Dataram

DDRdrive

Delkin Devices

Density Dynamics

Dolphin

DTS

Dynamic Solutions Int'l

EasyCo

Foremay

Fuji Xerox

Fusion-io

GalaxyStor

Gear6

General Micro Systems

GIGA-BYTE Technology

Global Unichip

G.Skill

G-Technology

Hagiwara Sys-Com

Hitachi

HP

Hynix Semiconductor

IBM

Imation

InnoDisk

ioSafe

Intel

KingFast

KingSpec

Kingston Technology

Lauron Technologies

Lexar Media

LSI

MagicRAM

MemoCom

Memoright

Micron Technology

Mtron

Mushkin

Myung

Network Appliance

NextIO

OCZ

Panasonic

Patriot Memory

Phison Electronics

Phoenix International

PhotoFast

Pillar Data Systems

Plextor

Pliant Technology

PNY Technologies

PQI

Pretec Electronics

pureSilicon

RAID

Real Ram Disk

RunCore

Samsung

SandForce

SanDisk

Sans Digital

SeaChange International

Seagate

SEEK Systems

SGI

Sharkoon

Shining Technology

Silicon Power

Silicon Storage Technology

SiliconSystems

SMART Modular Technologies

Solid Access Technologies

Solidata International Technologies

Solid Data Systems

Soliware

STEC

Storspeed

Sun Microsystems

Superior Data Solutions

Super Talent Technology

Swissbit

Taejin Infotech

Targa Systems

TDK

Team Group

Texas Memory Systems

Third I/O

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Trident Space & Defense

Unigen

Vanguard Rugged Storage

Verbatim

Viking Modular Solutions

Violin Memory

ViON

Virtium Technology

WD Solid State Storage

WhipTail Technologies

White Electronic Designs

Wintec

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Imperial Technology

Memtech

Micro Memory

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Nanochip

NEC

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Quantum

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Why should users buy SSDs?

STORAGEsearch.com's SSD market penetration model described the 4 simple user value propositions for switching to SSDs in a classic article first published in 2003.

The model's adoption by marketing VPs and founders in many leading SSD companies helped to clarify the market's thinking, increase confidence and accelerate the SSD revolution.

The article is just as valid today.

The converse is also true. If you don't have one of the problems described in the SSD market model - then buying SSDs is a waste of time.
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