If you’ve been keeping up with the Development of SSD drives as they become more and more mainstream, you may have noticed that there is still some ways to go before SSD’s can become as prevalent as regular magnetic hard drives. The biggest sticking point I’m seeing right now is that there is a large [...]
ComputerWorld has this to say regarding the state of SSD:
“Most observers agree that solid-state disk (SSD) will eventually overtake magnetic disk drives as the storage medium of choice. SSD is lighter than traditional hard disk drives, is faster, is more durable and consumes less power. Still, SSD doesn’t measure up to the hype, particularly when [...]
Here’s a quick interview of Paul Price from Dell about some exciting technology emerging in the SSD and flash storage drives market from Flash Memory Summit 2008:
What really piques my interest is the use of SSD’s for SAN’s and NAS devices used in enterprise Virtualization platforms such as VMWare’s ESX server. My inner geek drools [...]
I’ve just found this cool utility Microsoft provides for free for managing your flash storage drives. It can be used for various purposes: You can copy files, and store Windows wireless profiles on it, which is a very handy feature. You can also use it to take an image of your entire drive to use [...]