Category: SSD
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SSD Trends, Tips And Topics
Will 2017 be there year of solid state device (SSD) all-flash data centers? Yes, just like 2016, 2015 and 2014, as well as 2018, 2019 and so forth. Some might say that comment is rather snarky, while others see the humor and reality. SSDs of some type, shape and form are in your future, if…
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The Future Of SSD: Reality Catches Up To Hype
It might be a bit late, but I am just back from vacation. While away, I was sent an interesting article on the future of SSD technology and the actual study. This is not really news to me. A few years ago, I argued that lithography limits and disk drive density were going to keep…
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SSD Reality
There was a great presentation from FAST 2013 about SSDs. It details critical issues that have not been addressed by many vendors. The presentation is worth watching for sure. Now power faults might not be common, but I think the issues point to the differences in resiliency between disk drives and SSDs. What was most…
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Is 2013 The Year That SSDs Change The Storage Market?
As we enter 2013 we all know that the traditional disk drive vendors have entered the SSD market in full force. These are the vendors that regularly ship hundreds of PB of storage yearly to the major external storage vendors (EMC, NetApp, IBM, HDS, etc). Of course I am taking about enterprise SSDs, which support…
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SSD Consolidation Continues
Back in December, I wrote about Texas Memory putting itself up for sale. Recently, IBM purchased Texas Memory. This is not the end of the consolidation of SSD vendors. Now a rumor of Seagate buying OCZ is circulating. This will not end the buyouts of the SSD vendors, either. There are too many vendors, and…
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Sorting Out SSD Strengths And Weaknesses
SSDs are bursting onto the scene in many forms with a variety of features, I/O interfaces, speeds, capacities, and internal architectures. This article explores how users can evaluate the various types of SSDs, and explains the role of the Storage Networking Industry Association’s (SNIA’s) Solid State Storage Initiative (SSSI) in helping to sort through today’s…
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SSD Consolidation?
Seagate has invested in Virident and now Western Digital invested in Skyera. Does that mean that the big disk players are picking and choosing the winners of SSD market? Also of course you might remember the rumor that OCZ was going to be purchased by Seagate back last summer? The question I’m asking myself is:…
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SSDs Poised For The Enterprise
Although solid-state disk (SSD) drives have seen insignificant adoption in the PC market, considerable excitement exists in the enterprise space for these devices. The key reason is speed. Although the price per gigabyte for an SSD drive is prohibitive in comparison to that of a traditional hard disk drive (HDD), there are server applications that…
