Winstation Systems

2.5 inch solid state disk market guide and directory

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Founded in 1979, Winstation Systems Corporation is a leading full-line manufacturer of Industrial strength data storage products. Product lines include, ToughFlash TM form factors in CompactFlash, 2.5" Solid State Hard Drives (SSD), Flash Disk Module (FDM) and ATA Flash PCMCIA Cards. Also included is Magnetic Rotating form factors in 3.5" SCSI FDD and SCSI ZIP internal drives with capacities from 250mb to 750mb.

editor's note:- Winstation has joined the list of gone-away storage companies. I've been told that their SSD product line was acquired by GalaxyStor.

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Michelangelo found David inside a rock.
Megabyte was looking for a solid state disk.

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.

read the article - SSD Myths and Legends

RAM based SSDs have been used alongside RAID for years - but flash SSDs are physically smaller and have bigger capacity (upto 160G 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

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