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SSD news roundup

Posted on November 8, 2011 by Ray

NexGen comes out of stealth NexGen Storage a local storage company came out of stealth today and is also generally available.  Their storage system has been in beta since April 2011 and is in use by a number of customers … Continue reading →

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OCZ’s new Octane SATA SSD pushes latency limits below 100μsec

Posted on October 20, 2011 by Ray

OCZ just announced that their new Octane 1TB SSD can perform reads and writes under a 100 μsec. (specifically “Read: 0.06ms; Write: 0.09ms”).  Such fast access times boggle the imagination and even with SATA 3 seems almost unobtainable. Speed matters, especially … Continue reading →

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Graphene Flash Memory

Posted on September 6, 2011 by Ray

I have been thinking about writing a post on “Is Flash Dead?” for a while now.  Well at least since talking with IBM research a couple of weeks ago on their new memory technologies that they have been working on. … Continue reading →

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Pure Storage surfaces

Posted on August 23, 2011 by Ray

We were talking with Pure Storage last week, another SSD startup which just emerged out of stealth mode today.  Somewhat like SolidFire which we discussed a month or so ago, Pure Storage uses only SSDs to provide primary storage.  In … Continue reading →

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SATA Express combines PCIe and SATA

Posted on August 11, 2011 by Ray

SATA-IO recently announced a new specification for an PCIe and SATA-IO specification (better described in the presentation) that will provide a SATA device interface directly connected to a server’s PCIe bus. The new working specification offers either 8Gbps or 16Gbps depending … Continue reading →

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OCZ’s latest Z-Drive R4 series PCIe SSD

Posted on August 4, 2011 by Ray

OCZ just released a new version of their enterprise class Z-drive SSD storage with pretty impressive performance numbers (up to 500K IOPS [probably read] with 2.8GB/sec read data transfer). Bootability These new drives are bootable SCSI devices and connect directly to … Continue reading →

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Intel’s 320 SSD “8MB problem”

Posted on July 26, 2011 by Ray

Read a recent news item on Intel being able to replicate their 320 SSD 8MB problem that some customers have been complaining about. Apparently the problem occurs when power is suddenly removed from the device.  The end result is that … Continue reading →

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SolidFire supplies scale-out SSD storage for cloud service providers

Posted on June 21, 2011 by Ray

I was talking with a local start up called SolidFire the other day with an interesting twist on SSD storage.  They were targeting cloud service providers with a scale-out, cluster based SSD iSCSI storage system.  Apparently a portion of their … Continue reading →

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