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About Xyratex Xyratex is a leading provider of
enterprise-class data storage subsystems and storage process technology. The
company designs and manufactures enabling technology that provides OEM and disk
drive manufacturers with data storage products to support high-performance
storage and data communication networks. Xyratex has over 20 years of experience
in research and development relating to
disk drives, storage
systems, and high-speed communication protocols.
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| Are MLC SSDs Safe
in Enterprise Apps? |
This is a follow up
article (published in March 2008) to the popular
SSD Myths and
Legends which, a year earlier demolished the myth that flash memory
wear-out (a comfort blanket beloved by many
RAM SSD makers)
precluded the use of flash in heavy duty datacenters.
This new
article looks at the risks posed by MLC Nand Flash SSDs which have recently
hatched from their breeeding ground as chip modules in cellphones and morphed
into
hard disk form
factors. |
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It starts down a familiar
lane but an unexpected technology twist (which arrived in my email while
writing this article) takes you to a startling new world of possibilities.
...read the
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