RAM SSDs versus Flash SSDs - which is Best? Experts discuss the server acceleration market.

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see also:- Violin Memory - editor mentions on STORAGEsearch.com

• editor's comments:- In Q108 Violin Memory was listed again in our quarterly feature - the Top 10 Solid State Disk Companies
  
  Although Violin doesn't call its systems (launched August 2007) solid state disks - that's the best way to think about them - because they can do a similar server acceleration job as a classic RAM based SSD - but at a much lower price.
  
  Part of the cost saving is because the memory array is volatile (data is lost when the power goes off). But in most data center applications that limitation has a simple workaround. Another part of the cost saving is the use of a PCI express interface instead of the classic Fibre-channel, SAS or Infiniband ports which connect other rackmount enterprise SSDs.
  
  Violin was the first SSD oem to step across the artificial dividing line between flash SSDs and RAM SSDs - by announcing a product line (the Violin 1010 Memory Appliance) which will offer both. I've said for years that most enterprise customers don't care about the RAM SSD versus Flash SSD debate. They just want the best SSD for their performance needs at the best price.