Sun unveils entry-level SSD-hybrid storage array

From the corporate world -
“Sun today announced a new entry-level addition to its family of Unified Storage arrays. The Sun Storage 7310 array allows smaller IT shops to deploy both solid-state disk and hard disk drives in the same box; it also offers clustering capabilities.”
This looks like a good interim solution for smaller shops that [...]

Hybrid SSD Drive Promises Fastest Performance Yet

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 [...]

SSD Drive Speeds - A Second Look Required?

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 [...]