Tag Archives: MLC NAND

Pure Storage surfaces

Posted on August 23, 2011 by Ray

We were talking with Pure Storage last week, another SSD startup which just emerged out of stealth mode today.  Somewhat like SolidFire which we discussed a month or so ago, Pure Storage uses only SSDs to provide primary storage.  In … Continue reading →

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OCZ’s latest Z-Drive R4 series PCIe SSD

Posted on August 4, 2011 by Ray

OCZ just released a new version of their enterprise class Z-drive SSD storage with pretty impressive performance numbers (up to 500K IOPS [probably read] with 2.8GB/sec read data transfer). Bootability These new drives are bootable SCSI devices and connect directly to … Continue reading →

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When will disks become extinct?

Posted on March 8, 2011 by Ray

Yesterday, it was announced that Hitachi General Storage Technologies (HGST) is being sold to Western Digital for $4.3B and after that there was much discussion in the tweeterverse about the end of enterprise disk as we know it.  Also, last … Continue reading →

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What eMLC and eSLC do for SSD longevity

Posted on October 18, 2010 by Ray

I talked last week with some folks from Nimbus Data who were discussing their new storage subsystem.  Apparently it uses eMLC (enterprise Multi-Level Cell) NAND SSDs for its storage and has no SLC (Single Level Cell) NAND at all. Nimbus … Continue reading →

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WD’s new SiliconEdge Blue SSD data write spec

Posted on March 4, 2010 by Ray

Western Digital (WD) announced their first SSD drive for the desktop/laptop market space today.  Their drive offers the typical256, 128, and 64GB capacity points over a SATA interface.  Performance looks ok at 5K random read or write IO/s with sustained … Continue reading →

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Intel-Micron new 25nm/8GB MLC NAND chip

Posted on February 2, 2010 by Ray

Intel-Micron Flash Technologies just issued another increase in NAND density. This one’s manages to put 8GB on a single chip with MLC(2) technology in a 167mm square package or roughly a half inch per side. You may recall that Intel-Micron … Continue reading →

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Toshiba studies laptop write rates confirming SSD longevity

Posted on January 8, 2010 by Ray

Today Toshiba announced a new series of SSD drives based on their 32NM MLC NAND technology. The new technology is interesting but what caught my eye was another part of their website, i.e., their SSD FAQs. We have talked about … Continue reading →

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STEC's MLC enterprise SSD

Posted on August 13, 2009 by Ray

I haven’t seen much of a specification on STEC’s new enterprise MLC SSD but it should be interesting.  So far everything I have seen seems to indicate that it’s a pure MLC drive with no SLC NAND.  This is difficult … Continue reading →

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