There’s fast, and then there’s stupid-fast, and a new hybrid SSD drive will fall into the latter category if it can live up to the speed claims being put out by its manufacturer, who says a single DDRDrive X1 can hit a staggering 300,000 IOPS.
The new drive combines 4GB of DDR memory for high-speed operation [...]
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 [...]
A really cool use of flash memory that is finally starting to get popular is called the Solid State Drive. A solid state drive is used as a replacement to the typical run of the mill magnetic hard drive. Since it uses flash memory, there are no moving parts, and it is much quieter than [...]