Micron just announced a new SSD drive based on their 34nm SLC NAND technology with some pretty impressive performance numbers.  They used an independent organization, Calypso SSD testing, to supply the performance numbers: Random Read 44,000 IO/sec Random Writes 16,000 IO/sec Sequential Read 360MB/sec Sequential Write 255MB/sec Even more impressive considering this performance was generated using [...]

A couple of weeks ago SNIA just released a new version of their SSSI (SSD) performance test specification for public comment. Not sure if this is the first version out for public comment or not but I discussed a prior version in a presentation I did for SNW last October and I have blogged before [...]

Multiple cloud storage gateways either have been announced or are coming out in the next quarter or so. We have talked before about Nasuni’s file cloud storage gateway appliance, but now that more are out one can have a better appreciation of the cloud gateway space. StorSimple Last week I was talking with StorSimple that [...]

We return now to our ongoing quest to understand the difference between CIFS and NFS performance in the typical data center.  As you may recall from past posts and our newsletters on this subject, we had been convinced that in SPECsfs 2008 CIFS had almost 2X the throughput of NFS in SPECsfs 2008 benchmarks.  Well as [...]

Was at a Rocky Mountain Magnetics (IEEE) seminar a couple of weeks ago and a fellow from HDS GST was discussing recent advances in bit patterned media (BPM).  They had shown some success at 45nm by 45 nm bit cells which corresponded to about 380Gb/sqin a little less than current technology is capable of without [...]

This chart is from SCI’s last months report on recent Storage Performance Council (SPC) benchmark results. There were a couple of new entries this quarter but we decided to introduce this new chart as well. This is a bubble scatter plot of SPC-1(TM) (online transaction workloads) results. Only storage subsystems that cost less than $100/GB, [...]

Western Digital (WD) announced their first SSD drive for the desktop/laptop market space today.  Their drive offers the typical256, 128, and 64GB capacity points over a SATA interface.  Performance looks ok at 5K random read or write IO/s with sustained transfers at 250 and 140MB/s for read and write respectively.  But what caught my eye [...]

Intel-Micron Flash Technologies just issued another increase in NAND density. This one’s manages to put 8GB on a single chip with MLC(2) technology in a 167mm square package or roughly a half inch per side. You may recall that Intel-Micron Flash Technologies (IMFT) is a joint venture between Intel and Micron to develop NAND technology [...]