Tabernus, LLC is an international software development
company specializing in SCSI,
iSCSI,
Fibre Channel,
SATA,
SAS, and related
diagnostics and testing. Their customer base includes leading OEMs,
international mass storage manufacturers and world leading system integrators.
With more than 40,000 copies of our software in use both nationally and
internationally, Tabernus sets itself apart from the competition by having more
than a decade of experience in the peripheral testing industry and a full staff
of tenured engineers to support and develop our products. Tabernus is also the
only company worldwide that builds protocol support directly into the HBA (host
bus adapter) vendors own proprietary source code, offering their customer base
unsurpassed testing functionality. Tabernus' diverse product offerings range
from entry-level to expert-level software. The products are designed to
dramatically reduce the time engineers and technicians spend prepping
and programming disk, tape and optical drives, by offering the quickest, most
effective solutions for troubleshooting drive problems. The company also
specializes in the development of custom solutions and OEM software for the SCSI
and Fibre Channel peripheral market. Tabernus is a SunSoft Catalyst developer, a
certified Silicon Graphics Development Partner, an HP Channel Partner, an
authorized Microsoft developer, and a Gold Adaptec ACAP Member/Developer.
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- SSD Myths and Legends - "write endurance" |
Does the
fatal gene of "write endurance" built into
flash
solid state
disks prevent their deployment in intensive server acceleration
applications - such as RAID
systems? |
It was
certainly true as little as a few years ago.
What's the risk with
today's devices?
This article looks at the current generation of
products and calculates how much (or how little) you should be worried. |
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RAM based SSDs have been
used alongside RAID for years - but
flash SSDs are
physically smaller and have bigger capacity (upto 412G in 2.5", 512G in
3.5") and are lower cost than RAM-SSDs and could actually be configured
in standard RAID boxes. F-SSDs aren't as fast as RAM based products but a single
flash SSD can deliver 20,000 IOPs - which when scaled up in an array - starts to
look interesting.
...read the
article,
storage reliability
solid state disks | |