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| "The beginnning
of the SSD search is a different place for everyone. Every day someone is
hearing the music of the
Beatles for the very first time" |
| ...Editor's view about
why some SSD articles remain popular - even though they were written many years
ago. (Many of these classic hits - which were originally in mono - have been
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| SSD blogs -
on other sites |
Here are some external SSD blogs I
recommend.
- appICU - 5 9's thought
provoking SSD articles by Woody Hutsell whose insights into the enterprise SSD
market were honed by over a decade managing one of the leading SSD oems.
- Avere
Systems - Record-Setting Latency and Why it Matters (December 2009).
- Cadence
- Messages for OEMs and SoC Designers from the Flash Memory Summit (August
2010).
- Denali - includes many
articles about flash issues (upto November 2010).
- Fusion-io
- Will Server-side Flash Caching Spell the End of Storage Arrays? - is my
pick from the huge number of entertaining (but not always educational) SSD
articles in this blog zone.
- Kaminario
- The effect of host/target ports on latencies is my pick from this regularly
updated SSD blog
- Percona - (a database
tuning company) has measured the performance of various PCIe / 2.5" flash
SSDs - and reports on how SSD performance varies with time and free capacity.
If you know the underlying design architecture and have experience in modelling
SSDs - the results are mostly obvious - but most of you aren't in that
situation - so some of these results may surprise you.
- SANRAD
- Integration of Flash Based Storage to File Systems and Applications (July
2011) suggests that the backward compatibility integration phase of the
PCIe SSD market will
be followed by new types of better software integration.
- STEC - this blog - I wish I
had an SSD in Iraq (August 2011) - about sand ingress into hard drives - shows
the cost of rotating storage in a military context.
- TekiNerd
- SSD Caching versus Tiering is my pick from this bunch of storage and server
articles by one of the cofounders of
Enmotus.
- Texas
Memory Systems - overprovisioning ratios and flash SSD Sustained Write
Performance - is my pick (April 2011) from this new series of SSD blogs.
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| Surviving SSD
sudden power loss |
Why should you care
what happens in an SSD when the power goes down?
This important design
feature - which barely rates a mention in most SSD datasheets and press releases
- has a strong impact on
SSD data integrity
and operational
reliability.
This article will help you understand why some
SSDs which (work perfectly well in one type of application) might fail in
others... even when the changes in the operational environment appear to be
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| the flash
SSD story - survival of the fittest? |
The
emerging size of
the flash SSD market as you see it today was by no means inevitable. It owes a
lot to 3 competing storage media competitors which failed to evolve fast enough
in the Darwinian jungle of the storage market in the
past decade.
One of these 3 contenders is definitely on the road to extinction -
but could one of the other 2 still emerge to threaten flash SSDs?
A
recently published article -
SSD's past phantom
demons explores the latent market threats which hovered around the flash SSD
market in the past decade. They seemed real and solid enough at the time. |
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Getting a realistic
perspective of flash SSD's past demons (which seemed very threatening at the
time) may help you better judge the so-called "new" generation of nv
memory contenders - which are also discussed in the article. ...read the article | | | |
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| the future
of enterprise data storage? |
Editor:-
the
future of data storage is the lofty sounding but aptly chosen title of a
new article published online in Broadcast Engineering
magazine.
It's written by Zsolt
Kerekes editor of StorageSearch.com
(that's me).
It's a completely new article which takes as its starting
point - storage market models and concepts from several futuristic
articles which have already appeared here on the mouse site - advances them
and integrates them into a single cohesive whole. |
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It will give you a clear
idea of how all the incremental changes you read about in
storage news pages will
add up to a different future - and the business reasons why. Sit back and
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