Hitachi CTO claims a 10- to 12-year development road map ahead for spinning disk drives, but the technology's inherent limitations will eventually force a shift
Flash-based memory is still too expensive to be a data center's primary storage technology, but solid-state disks may ultimately replace mechanical hard disk drives, says Hitachi Data Systems' CTO Hu Yoshida.
Lines of consumer, enterprise solid state drives to be unveiled before 2010 CES show
Flash storage vendor OCZ Technology Group Inc. this week announced that it plans to use controllers from SandForce Inc. in its next generation of consumer and enterprise-class solid state drives (SSDs).
New enterprise-class drives mark 40% price drop over current models
Intel Corp. will release a $120 solid-state disk (SSD) drive positioned as a server "boot drive" with only 40GB of capacity, but the drive could also be used in low-end laptops PCs and netbooks.
Consider cost-performance ratio when deploying solid-state drives
While solid state drives offer increased performance, the key to figuring out the role they can play in the data center is balancing that performance against cost.
New range of 2.5-inch solid-state-drives from Active Media available now.
Active Media Products announced Tuesday its new Predator-X7 line of 2.5-inch solid-state drives.
Flash storage can be integrated into the latest version of its SAN Volume Controller
IBM will add support for SSDs to version 5.0 of its SAN Volume Controller and is promising a big boost in performance with or without flash storage.
Storage vendors at the conference faced up to hype about the hot solid-state technology
Solid-state storage earned a hot technology's badge of honor -- a backlash -- on Wednesday at the Diskcon conference in Santa Clara, California.
It blames the solid-state drive for operations time-outs
Pillar Data Systems Inc. said this week that it's replacing Intel's X25-E solid state disk (SSD) drive as an option for its storage arrays with a drive from STEC Inc. because of firmware problems with the Intel's drive that lead to performance slowdowns.
With a kit, you get the tools to upgrade as many computers as you like
With solid-state disk (SSD) drives becoming more popular for laptops, users may find themselves in the position of upgrading the hard disk drive (HDD) in an older machine to get the reliability and speed that comes with flash memory technology.
San Diego Computing Center says flash memory will help analyze and solve data-mining problems faster
The San Diego Supercomputer Center has built a high-performance computer with solid-state drives, which the center says could help solve science problems faster than systems with traditional hard drives.
Intel fixes SSD bug that caused its latest consumer SSDs to crash
Intel on Tuesday said it had resumed shipping its latest consumers solid-state drives (SSDs) after resolving a password bug that made the drives inoperable, making it impossible to access or retrieve data.
Web 2.0 and Internet services companies see the fast, efficient technology changing their data centers
Cloud computing and flash-based storage, two of the fastest-growing technologies in IT, may drive each other forward as Internet-based service providers demand faster access to large amounts of data.
The economy solid-state disk strikes the right balance between performance and price
OCZ has had its share of problems out of the gate with its low-end, consumer solid-state disk drive, the Apex Series SATA II. But its most recent economy SSD, the Agility Series SATA II 2.5-in., appears to be a successful effort to correct old problems with fresh technology. The Agility has ample cache to boost write performance and, most important, uses a higher-end controller. Yet it is only slightly more expensive than the Apex, which is still being sold.
The new drives use the popular Indilinx Barefoot controller
Corsair Memory Inc. today unveiled its Extreme Series 2.5-inch solid-state disk (SSD) drives, which it said rival other consumer SSDs in terms of performance.
NAND flash chip prices have increased 127 per cent since late '08
Surging prices for NAND flash memory have hurt what was a promising market for solid-state disk (SSD) drives in laptops this year, according to market research by iSupply Corp.
