New solid state drives from OCZ Technology are based on the latest SandForce SF-2000 controllers and deliver blazing performances. – OCZ Technology introduced on Jan. 6 new solid state drives
that have delivered impressive performance numbers and are designed for gamers
and enterprise systems.
The Vertex 3 SSD series and the Z-Drive R3 SSD are both
based on the latest SandForce SF-2000 controllers, OCZ said. The Vertex 3 come…
Virtually all primary storage in enterprise systems currently is contained in DRAM cache or hard disk drives, so this marks a milestone of sorts for the SSD and NAND flash industries. –
Samsung, the world’s largest seller of NAND flash-based storage, said
Dec. 21 that it has been sampling 100GB, 200GB and 400GB
multi-level-cell (MLC) solid state drives for use as primary storage in
enterprise storage systems.
Virtually all primary storage in enterprise systems currently is…
The new drives, developed in partnership with Intel/Micron, come in 100GB, 200GB and 400GB capacities with a choice of 2.5-inch 6Gbit/sec SAS (serial-attached SCSI) or 3.5-inch 4G bps Fibre Channel interfaces. – If it seems that Hitachi Global Storage Technologies is a little
behind the curve in delivering SSDs to the enterprise data center,
well, you’d be correct. Most of the other storage system makers have
had them available as options to replace hard disk drives for months
and/or even a few years.
…
Hitachi GST, unveiled today its first enterprise-class solid-state drive family, a joint development using Intel 34nm NAND flash memory and advanced SSD technology. The Ultrastar SSD400S family of SSDs from Hitachi combines enterprise-grade NAND flash, proprietary endurance firmware and power loss management techniques from Intel to extend reliability, endurance and sustained performance.
Just in time for the holidays, the world’s largest chipmaker lowers prices on its entire line of solid-state drives. It also introduced a new model to its catalog. – Intel is getting into the holiday season frame of mind early this year by giving its OEMs and consumer customers a special gift.
The world’s largest chipmaker said Nov. 12 that it has lowered prices
by 10 percent to 20 percent on its entire line of solid-state drives.
It also introduced a new…
Today’s data warehouses operate on stale (day-old) snapshots of data, in order to achieve efficient data access. The rise of e-commerce and the need for 24×7 operations for global markets make online updates increasingly desirable. At Research@Intel Day 2010 last month, researchers from Intel Labs Pittsburgh demonstrated research exploiting Solid State Drives (SSDs) to enable fast data access on up-to-the-minute data. Researchers demonstrated a prototype data warehouse that caches recent updates in a SSD, and combines cached updates on-the-fly in query answers while preserving the queries’ good sequential disk access patterns.
Nowadays when SSDs are available only for 100$, Intel is also expected to release a 600GB 25 nm SSD by the end of 2010.
SSDs being more efficient than Hard Disk drives have higher read/write speeds, consume less power as well as are smaller in size. SSD have a drawback that they have a short life
Intel [...]
Intel won first place in an industry ranking of solid-state drives (SSDs) conducted by DRAMeXchange Technology. Both the Intel X25-M 80GB and 160GB SSDs garnered top spots and won praise for their speedy boot-up times. SSDs were ranked on performance, quality and value. To read the article, visit Intel Wins Top Spots in SSD Storage Drive Ranking – PCWorld Business Center.
OCZ Technology Group has a new SSD, the Onyx Vertex, that at $100 for 32GB of capacity can serve as an entry point for someone curious about trying SSDs.
– Home and small-office laptop or desktop users and those who run servers
and/or a RAID array at some point might be interested in swapping out a disk
drive for a solid-state one for performance purposes.
If that’s the case, San Jose, Calif.-based disk drive maker OCZ Technology
Group has a new …
WD said that the new 2.5-inch SiliconEdge Blue drives use a native 3-gigabits-per-second (Gb/s) SATA interface to perform at a sustained read speed of 250MB per second, compared to about 100MB per second for WD’s fastest 2.5-inch hard disk drive, the Scorpio Black.
– Western Digital, which recently shorted its corporate identity to WD, said March 3 that it has begun shipping its first line of consumer-oriented SATA [serial ATA] solid state drives.
WD said that the new 2.5-inch SiliconEdge Blue drives use a native 3-gigabits-per-second (Gb/s) SATA interface …
According to the December print edition of PC World, the Intel X25-M SSD ranked No. 3 in the PC World Top 100 Best Products of 2009, ahead of both Facebook and Twitter. According to the publication, “This model’s speedy test results put it at the top of our chart; its price and performance make it a compelling flash upgrade for notebook or desktop users.” SSDs, or Solid State Drives, are storage devices that can replace a computer’s hard drive. Because SSDs have no moving parts they offer faster performance and greater energy efficiency and durability.
IBM announced a new OEM agreement that licenses use of Fusion-io’s core NAND flash ioMemory technology to become the basis for an SSD storage appliance to be offered exclusively in IBM’s System x server line. Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is now chief scientist for Fusion-io.
– IBM on Dec. 9 made a strategic move into the enterprise solid-state
storage market, casting its lot with a newcomer — solid-state server
and storage array maker Fusion-io — and its well-known chief scientist
and IT thought leader, Steve Wozniak.
Wozniak, co-founder of Apple, joined Fusion-io…
Micron Technology claims its four new solid-state drives surpass SSDs from current industry leader Intel as the fastest available for notebook and desktop PCs. Micron’s RealSSD C300 flash drives are the first to use the SATA 3.0 standard and its 6G-bps throughput.
– Micron Technology has built its longstanding reputation on dynamic RAM
products. Now it’s moving into the NAND flash business, and with a bit of
panache.
Micron on Dec. 3 unveiled four new solid-state drives the first to use the SATA
3.0 standard and its 6G-bps throughput that it claims surpas…
The argument about hard disk drives versus solid-state drives has been going on for a long time and will continue for years to come. There are those who are convinced that SSDs will indeed outnumber hard drives in the IT business at some point in our lifetimes. Data storage experts consider the question at a Stanford roundtable.
– STANFORD, Calif. If you ask some of the most knowledgeable
people in the solid-state drive business, you’ll find out that SSDs though
becoming increasingly popular aren’t in a position take over
from hard drives any time soon.
Of course, this argument
has been going on for a long time and wil…
Recently Intel showcased more than 1 million IOPs (input/output operations per second) supported by a single mainstream server using 7 PCIe solid state drive (SSD) prototypes. With this proof of concept, Intel is identifying platform bottlenecks and working on engineering improvements for future storage products. To get this kind of performance from conventional hard drives, you would need many storage racks, filled with ~4,000 hard drives – an expensive, space-consuming and power-hungry proposition. Intel used one dual socket server with an expansion box and consumed only ~400 watts (more than 100x lower power than a hard drive configuration would have). We used a challenging workload for a single 1U server: 4Kbyte transfers with a 2:1 read/write ratio. Meanwhile, the CPUs were only about 50% utilized, leaving plenty of power left for applications. This could enable an online retailer to host an unprecedented number of website transactions while containing costs or a game developer could bring products to market faster. For more info, see Senior VP & GM, Bob Baker’s Intel Developer Forum Keynote “Silicon Leadership – Delivering Innovation” and recent press.
“Moving a physical disk head… is so last century,” said Allan Snavely, associate director of San Diego Supercomputer Center. Unlike slower, hard disk drives that use moving parts, the Intel chips and Intel® High-Performance Solid-State Drives have been chosen for the University of California, San Diego’s Gordon project that will build one of the world’s most powerful supercomputers that will be dedicated to solving critical science and societal problems. The Intel SSDs will help speed scientific computations or data-intensive applications such as 3-D seismic tomography for earthquake prediction and research. View the press release.
Users of HP ProLiants will have the option to replace anywhere from two to 24 hard disks with the new SSDs, depending upon their configurations, business requirements and budget constraints. In this setup, data center administrators will be able to use specific drives for specific types of applications.
– Samsung,
which has been competing fiercely with Toshiba
for new customers in the enterprise NAND flash drive market, announced a major
one Sept. 17 in Hewlett-Packard,
which will now use the Korean manufacturer’s 60GB and 120GB solid-state drives
as an option in its ProLiant G5 and G6 servers.
…
Adaptec, Inc. announced it is using Intel® X25-E Extreme SATA Solid-State Drives (SSDs) in a new storage solution that aims to maximize application acceleration in data centers. The Intel SSDs will be used to help deliver 5x the input/output (I/O) performance, reduce power consumption and save up to 50 percent capital and operating expenses in the new Adaptec hybrid storage array that uses a combination of SSDs and traditional hard disk drives. View the Adaptec MaxIQ press release.
As NAND flash capacities continue to get higher, notebooks with solid-state drives such as Toshiba’s 512GB SSD laptop become more and more useful for both business and personal purposes. But prices remain 20 percent to 40 percent higher than standard spinning disk drive portables.
– Industry analysts and vendors are predicting
that solid-state disks for computing and storage are the wave of the future
for laptop computers, and for a lot of reasons.
As NAND flash capacities continue to get higher Toshiba
has a 512GB laptop available, and 1TB units are only months away they…
