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SSD Tiering versus Caching: Part 2

Posted on August 14, 2011 by tekinerd

A while back I wrote about some of the differences between caching and tiering when using solid state disk (SSD) drives in a PC or server. Having just returned from the 2011 Flash Memory Summit in Santa Clara, I feel … Continue reading →

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Hardware RAID Adapters Making A Comeback?

Posted on August 5, 2010 by tekinerd

We are constantly reading about how the number of cores being offered by Intel and AMD will eventually make hardware acceleration devices in a server mostly obsolete. But hang on, I recall hearing something similar back in the 90s when … Continue reading →

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