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SSD DIMM – An Alternative to PCIe SSD

Posted on August 26, 2011 by George Crump

PCIe Solid State Disks (SSDs) have become extremely popular in a very short amount of time. They provide uncomplicated access to high performance storage, allowing latency problems to be solved where the application is run – on the server. And,…

Tagged with: DIMM, Flash memory, Linux, PCI Express, PCIe, SATA, Serial ATA, Solid-state drive, SSD, Viking, VMware
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What To Look For in Server Based SSD

Posted on August 9, 2011 by George Crump

As Storage Switzerland discussed in the article “What is Server Based Solid State Caching” there is much to be gained by moving solid state disk (SSD) closer to the application and its processor. The substantial reduction of network I/O and…

Tagged with: Cache, DRAM, Dynamic random-access memory, EMC, Flash memory, Marvell, PCI Express, Solid-state drive, SSD, VMware
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OCZ Deneva 2 Test Drive – First Impressions

Posted on July 25, 2011 by George Crump

OCZ recently sent Storage Switzerland two of their new Deneva 2 eMLC based solid state disk drives (SSD) to test in our labs. eMLC, or enterprise MLC, has a longer life cycle (about 30,000 program/erase cycles) than MLC without the…

Tagged with: Hard disk drive, HDD, MLC, Multi-level cell, OCZ Technology, Solid-state drive, SSD
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SSD, Heal Thyself!

Posted on June 29, 2011 by George Crump

It is a well known fact that each write takes a toll on the longevity of flash-based solid state storage (SSS), and that each particular module will eventually fail after reaching its write limit. Depending on the memory type that,…

Tagged with: ECC, MLC, RAID, SLC, SSD, SSS, Texas Memory
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OCZ Pushing The SSD Envelope

Posted on June 28, 2011 by George Crump

Solid State Storage (SSD) continues to gain interest in markets of all sizes, from user laptops to home gaming systems to small business servers to the enterprise itself. Very few companies cover that full spectrum like OCZ can. OCZ is…

Tagged with: Flash memory, IOPS, Multi-level cell, OCZ, OCZ Technology, PCI Express, SandForce, Solid-state drive, SSD
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What is Server Based Solid State Caching?

Posted on June 27, 2011 by George Crump

Thanks to virtualization (server and desktop), cloud computing and big data, many environments are adding capacity to their storage infrastructures to meet performance demand. Essentially they are trying to provide the storage system with access to enough hard disk spindles…

Tagged with: Cache, Dell, Hard disk drive, Marvell, NetApp, PCI Express, Solid-state drive, SSD, Storage, Western Digital
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Pay Attention to Flash Controllers when Comparing SSD Systems

Posted on December 11, 2009 by Eric Slack

Solid State Disk (SSD) storage devices now commonly use flash memory as the media on which they record data. Flash has driven the SSD cost per capacity significantly below that of DRAM based SSD and flash is narrowing the lead…

Tagged with: DRAM, ECC, Flash memory, MLC, Multi-level cell, SLC, Solid-state drive, SSD
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Visualizing SSD Readiness

Posted on June 2, 2009 by George Crump

For many enterprises, Solid State Disks (SSD) should no longer be a future consideration and they are visualizing SSD at work in their data center. Many environments can take advantage of SSD right now and the organization can benefit from…

Tagged with: Hardware, IOPS, Serial ATA, Solid-state drive, SSD, Texas Memory Systems, Visual, White paper
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