SSDs and World of Warcraft
For enthusiasts and gamers, over the past several years, combining several hard drives in a striped RAID configuration has provided reasonable benefits over and above a single hard drive. With…
SSD Caching versus Tiering
In some recent discussions, I sensed there is some confusion around solid state device (SSD) storage used as a storage tier vs, a cache. While there are some similarities and…
PCIe Flash versus SATA or SAS Based SSD
The impressive results being presented by the new PCIe based server or workstation add-in card flash memory products hitting the market from the likes of FusionIO and others are certainly…
Kingston SSDnow VSeries and RAID
I've been watching the price of SSDs fall for a little while now and was intrigued by the sub $100 pricing being offered by Kingston and their MLC based 30G…
Flash Memory Summit 2010
The Flash Memory Summit was well attended this year with attendance up over 50%. A total of around 2000 people showed up versus the planned 1200 according to the show…