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Intels Plans for New SSDs in 2012 Detailed
Image via Wikipedia Through first quarter of 2012, Intel will be releasing new SSDs: Intel SSD 520 “Cherryville” Series replacement for the Intel SSD 510 Series, Intel SSD 710 “Lyndonville” Series...
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Fusion plays its card: The Ten of Terabytes • The Register
Fusion-io has crammed eight ioDrive flash modules on one PCIe card to give servers 10TB of app-accelerating flash. This follows on from its second generation ioDrives: PCIe-connected flash cards using...
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AnandTech – Intel and Micron IMFT Announce Worlds First 128Gb 20nm MLC NAND
Image via Wikipedia The big question is endurance, however we wont see a reduction in write cycles this time around. IMFTs 20nm client-grade compute NAND used in consumer SSDs is designed for 3K – 5K...
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More PCI-express SSD cards coming to OS X | MacFixIt – CNET Reviews
The card will use the Marvell 88SE9455 RAID controller that will interface with the SandForce 2200-based daughter cards that can be added to the main controller on demand. This will allow for...
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Fusion-io demos billion IOPS server config • The Register
Fusion-io has achieved a billion IOPS from eight servers in a demonstration at the DEMO Enterprise event Image via CrunchBase in San Francisco. The cracking performance needed just eight HP DL370 G6...
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AnandTech – Some Thoughts on SandForces 3rd Generation SSD Controller
Finally theres talk about looking at other interfaces in addition to SATA. Its possible that we may see a PCIe version of SandForces 3rd generation controller. via AnandTech – Some Thoughts on...
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Flash DOOMED to drive itself off a cliff – boffins • The Register
Image via Wikipedia Microsoft and University of California San Diego researchers have said flash has a bleak future because smaller and more densely packed circuits on the chips silicon will make it...
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SSD prices may drop following impending price war | MacFixIt – CNET Reviews
Image via CrunchBase As a result of this impending price war, if you are planning on upgrading your system with an SSD, you might consider waiting for a few months to watch the market and see how much...
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Fusion-ios flash drill threatens to burst Violins pipes • The Register
Violin Memory Inc. NoSQL database supplier Couchbase says it is tweaking its key-value storage server to hook into Fusion-ios PCIe flash ioMemory products – caching the hottest data in RAM and storing...
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Facebook smacks away hardness, sticks MySQL stash on flash • The Register
Image via CrunchBase Does Fusion-io have a sustainable competitive advantage or will it get blown away by a hurricane of other PCIe flash card vendors attacking the market, such as EMC, Intel, Micron,...
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All-flash IBM V7000 smashes Oracle/Sun ZFS box • The Register
Some Storage Thingy (Photo credit: mootown) What would happen if we replaced those 16 disk-based V7000s with all-flash V7000s? Each of the disk-based ones delivered 32,502.7 IOPS. Let’s substitute them...
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Anandtech – New LSI series of Flash Memory Controllers
English: FPU LSI R3010 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) May the SandForce be with you Nice writeup from Anandtech regarding the press release from LSI about it’s new 3rd generation flash memory controllers....
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OCZ sells out to Toshiba (it’s been good to know yuh’)
OCZ Technology (Photo credit: Wikipedia) http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/12/03/toshiba_buys_ocz/ Seems like it was only two years ago when OCZ bought out memory controller and intellectual property...
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Leaked Intel roadmap’ promises… er, gear that could die after 7 months [Chris...
Image via CrunchBase Chris Mellor – The Register http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/12/09/intel_ssd_roadmappery/ Chris does a quick write-up of a leaked SSD roadmap from Intel. Seems like we’re now...
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Follow-Up – EETimes on SanDisk UltraDIMMs
Image via CrunchBase http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1320775 “The eXFlash DIMM is an option for IBM‘s System x3850 and x3950 X6 servers providing up to 12.8 TB of flash capacity. (Although...
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SanDisk Crams 128GB on microSD Card: A World First
English: A 512 MB Kingston microSD card next to a Patriot SD adapter (left) and miniSD adapter (middle). (no original description) (Photo credit: Wikipedia) This week during Mobile World Congress 2014,...
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AnandTech | Testing SATA Express And Why We Need Faster SSDs
PCIe- und PCI-Slots im Vergleich (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Even a PCIe 2.0 x2 link offers about a 40% increase in maximum throughput over SATA 6Gbps. Like most interfaces, PCIe 2.0 isn’t 100% efficient...
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AnandTech | Samsung SSD XP941 Review: The PCIe Era Is Here
Mini PCI-Express Connector on Inspiron 11z Motherboard, Front (Photo credit: DandyDanny) I don’t think there is any other way to say this other than to state that the XP941 is without a doubt the...
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PCIe hard drives? You read that right, says WD • The Register
Mini PCI-Express Connector on Inspiron 11z Motherboard, Front (Photo credit: DandyDanny) WD will demo PCIe-connected disk drives at the Computex tech conference in Taipei, using a SATA Express...
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AnandTech | Intel SSD DC P3700 Review: The PCIe SSD Transition Begins with NVMe
We don’t see infrequent blips of CPU architecture releases from Intel, we get a regular, 2-year tick-tock cadence. It’s time for Intel’s NSG to be given the resources necessary to do the same. I long...
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