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Will Hybrid drives conquer enterprise storage?
I saw where Seagate announced the next generation of their Momentus XT Hybrid (SSD & Disk) drive this week. We haven’t discussed Hybrid drives much on this blog but it has become a viable product family. I am not planning on describing … Continue reading
Posted in Block Storage, Disk storage, File Storage, SSD storage, Storage architecture, Storage Features, Storage performance, Strategic Inflection Points, System effectiveness
Tagged backend storage, Caching, enterprise storage, FAST technology, hybrid drives, log structured files, NAND, NetApp, Seagate, Seagate Momentus XT Hybrid drive, SPC-2, SSD, WAFL
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Why SSD performance is a mystery?
SSD and/or SSS (solid state storage) performance is a mystery to most end-users. The technology is inherently asymmetrical, i.e., it reads much faster than it writes. I have written on some of these topics before (STEC’s new MLC drive, Toshiba’s … Continue reading
Posted in Storage, Storage performance
Tagged Benchmarks, Blocksizes, Caching, IO performance, NAND, R:W rate, Random IO, Sequential IO, SNIA, SSD, SSS, STEC, Storage performance
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