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Transcend Information. Inc., was founded in 1988 by Mr. Peter
Shu and has its headquarters in Taipei, Taiwan. Our extensive product portfolio
has grown to include over 2,000 memory modules of every type, flash memory
cards, USB pen drives, portable HDDs, multimedia products, graphics cards and
accessories. Transcend products are available for proprietary equipment, as well
as for mass marketed PCs. Transcend is a global company; with offices around
the world we are able serve all the major markets and provide superior quality
of service to our customers.
- editor's notes:- among other products Transcend
also makes 1.0" SSDs.
In
April 2006 the company revealed it was getting close to a $1 billion revenue run
rate - with approx $84 million revenue in March. Flash memory products
contributed to 57% of total sales, while DRAM modules accounted for 34%.
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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 (160G in 2.5") 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 | |