Tag Archives: SSD

Latest SPECsfs2008 results, over 1 million NFS ops/sec – chart-of-the-month

Posted on February 3, 2012 by Ray

[We are still catching up on our charts for the past quarter but this one brings us up to date through last month] There’s just something about a million SPECsfs2008(r) NFS throughput operations per second that kind of excites me (weird, … Continue reading →

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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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OCZ’s new Octane SATA SSD pushes latency limits below 100μsec

Posted on October 20, 2011 by Ray

OCZ just announced that their new Octane 1TB SSD can perform reads and writes under a 100 μsec. (specifically “Read: 0.06ms; Write: 0.09ms”).  Such fast access times boggle the imagination and even with SATA 3 seems almost unobtainable. Speed matters, especially … Continue reading →

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Graphene Flash Memory

Posted on September 6, 2011 by Ray

I have been thinking about writing a post on “Is Flash Dead?” for a while now.  Well at least since talking with IBM research a couple of weeks ago on their new memory technologies that they have been working on. … Continue reading →

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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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SolidFire supplies scale-out SSD storage for cloud service providers

Posted on June 21, 2011 by Ray

I was talking with a local start up called SolidFire the other day with an interesting twist on SSD storage.  They were targeting cloud service providers with a scale-out, cluster based SSD iSCSI storage system.  Apparently a portion of their … Continue reading →

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Potential data loss using SSD RAID groups

Posted on May 19, 2011 by Ray

The problem with SSDs is that they typically all fail at some level of data writes, called the write endurance specification. As such, if you purchase multiple drives from the same vendor and put them in a RAID group, sometimes … Continue reading →

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