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TDK Corporation (NYSE: TDK) is a leading global electronics
company based in Japan. It was established in 1935 to commercialize "ferrite,"
a key material in electronics and magnetics. The company today is a leader in
the development of next-generation technologies such as Blu-ray Disc recording
media, an optical disc ideally suited for high-definition video recording. TDK
offers a full line of recordable DVD and CD media, digital camcorder tapes,
professional data storage solutions including LTO Ultrium media, and much more.
- editor's note:- in August 2007 TDK announced a joint venture with
PQI to research, develop
and market Disk on Module (DOM) and
Solid State Disks (SSDs).
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| Squeak!
- 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 | |
