Tag Archives: NAND

Will Hybrid drives conquer enterprise storage?

Posted on December 1, 2011 by Ray

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 →

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Top 10 storage technologies over the last decade

Posted on December 30, 2010 by Ray

Some of these technologies were in development prior to 2000, some were available in other domains but not in storage, and some were in a few subsystems but had yet to become popular as they are today.  In no particular … Continue reading →

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The future of data storage is MRAM

Posted on November 30, 2010 by Ray

We have been discussing NAND technology for quite awhile now but this month I ran across an article in IEEE Spectrum titled “a SPIN to REMEMBER – Spintronic memories to revolutionize data storage“. The article discussed a form of magneto-resistive … Continue reading →

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Micron’s new P300 SSD and SSD longevity

Posted on August 13, 2010 by Ray

Micron just announced a new SSD drive based on their 34nm SLC NAND technology with some pretty impressive performance numbers.  They used an independent organization, Calypso SSD testing, to supply the performance numbers: Random Read 44,000 IO/sec Random Writes 16,000 IO/sec … Continue reading →

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SPECsfs2008 CIFS ORT performance – chart of the month

Posted on July 20, 2010 by Ray

The above chart on SPECsfs(R) 2008 results was discussed in our latest performance dispatch that went out to SCI’s newsletter subscribers last month.  We have described Apple’s great CIFS ORT performance in previous newsletters but here I would like to … Continue reading →

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Save the planet – buy fatter disks and flash

Posted on April 22, 2010 by Ray

Well maybe that overstates the case but there is no denying that both fatter (higher capacity) drives and flash memory (used as cache or in SSDs) saves energy in today’s data center.  The interesting thing is that the trend to … 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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