Tag Archives: SLC NAND

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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Seagate launches their Pulsar SSD

Posted on December 8, 2009 by Ray

Today Seagate announced their new SSD offering, named the Pulsar SSD.  It uses SLC NAND technology and comes in a 2.5″ form factor at 50, 100 or 200GB capacity.  The fact that it uses a 3GB/s SATA interface seems to … Continue reading →

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Toshiba's New MLC NAND Flash SSDs

Posted on August 6, 2009 by Ray

Toshiba has recently announced a new series of SSD’s based on MLC NAND (Yahoo Biz story). This is only the latest in a series of MLC SSDs which Toshiba has released. Historically, MLC (multi-level cell) NAND has supported higher capacity … Continue reading →

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