| new
directory - SSD videos |
Editor:- March 15, 2010 -
whenever I'm asked -"What do you do for a living?" - the best
answer I come up with is - "I waste my time so my readers don't have to
waste theirs."
Few things are so time-wasting on the web - in my
opinion - as videos which talk about the
SSD market. In 99.9% of
cases the same points have already been made - earlier, better, and about 30x
quicker - on static webpages.
It's several years since a reader asked
me - "Why isn't there a directory of
SSD videos on
StorageSearch.com?"
Well
- there is now. I datamined and filtered it from the tens of thousands of hours
I've spent reading and writing about SSDs. |
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It's the smallest list
of links in any directory page I've created since the web started - and at
this rate of progress will struggle to reach double digits by the time the
SSD market ends. Less is better - when it comes to wasting your time. ...read the article | | |
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| $100? -
too much to pay for a 32GB MLC SSD - says OCZ |
Editor:- March 10, 2010 -
OCZ today announced
it's shipping a 32GB 2.5"
MLC
SSD for under $100.
R/W speeds
are unremarkable - at a mere 125MB/s and 70MB/s respectively - but the main
point of this launch - according to OCZ's CEO, Ryan Petersen - is to
publicize the price point and show what the company is doing "to make SSDs
more affordable to end-users."
Editor's comments:- You get
exactly what you pay for in
SSD pricing. The
big problem is knowing what you want. |
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| Web-Feet
tallies SSD numbers |
Editor:- March 8, 2010 - Web-Feet Research
has just published a
quarterly
update to its 7th
annual
report on SSD Markets and Applications (annual price $9,000).
This
update focuses on the SSD
market dynamics for the year ending
2009 covering
the Client, Enterprise, and Commercial markets. |
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Addressed in each of these
markets are the drivers of
SSD adoption,
price points, and
issues associated with SSD adoption. Web-Feet Research has compiled aggregate
SSD shipments and revenue by form factor and application markets covering 2009. | | |
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| STEC
samples slim SSDs with deep roots |
Editor:- March 2, 2010 -STEC has started
sampling a new family of
SlimSATA and SATA-CF
32GB/64GB flash SSDs for use in embedded markets.
Performance is
15,000 / 6,000 R/W
IOPS and R/W transfer rates are up to 135MB/s and 130MB/s respectively.
"Increasing demand for high performance and
high
reliability SSDs within the embedded markets is a trend we are beginning to
see and on which we have put ourselves in a position to capitalize," said
Manouch Moshayedi, Chairman and CEO of STEC. "The introduction of our new
lines of small form factor SSDs for embedded applications is in line with our
strategy to help proliferate the use of SSDs across a broad range of
applications."
Editor's comments:- in a way this is STEC
going back to its roots.
In the server market - where it is better publicly known - STEC is
dependent on the success of partners like
EMC whose secret
ingredient in the SSD cola experience is bottling the water.
STEC
is also vulnerable to being substituted out for other
2.5" SSDs (or
sideswiped by PCIe SSDs)
at any time.
But STEC knows how to market to designers in embedded
markets. These are currently much smaller than the other segments in the classic
SSD market
penetration model. Nevertheless it's a way of boosting revenue.
And
here's something else to think about... which links together the oldest
segments in the flash
SSD market with the newest one for
SSD backup - which is still
at the birth stage.
The important feature in these new products is
the ratio of sleep mode power to operating mode power - which is 10
to 1. That's not too far off the ideal ratio (100 to 1) I think
it needs to reach in the next 5 years to support the concept of putting
petabytes of SSD
archive storage into 2U
racks. More about
that later... |
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In the meantime experience
gained in the unsexy (but
reliability
obsessed) embedded SSD
modules market can be viewed as a long term investment in what will be
the biggest market for SSD shipments long after the
current SSD market
bubble bursts. | | |
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RunCore's new Express Card
SSD
Editor:- March 1, 2010 - Among the many SSDs which RunCore will show
at CeBIT 2010 this week is an
Express Card
flash SSD designed for
notebooks
As
well as providing upto 64GB capacity (R/W speeds 120MB/s and 90MB/s) - the
Express 34 module also provides 2x
USB 3.0 ports with
connectors for linking the notebook to external devices. |
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Seagate
adds 2TB SAS track to
18 years grooving 7,200 RPM HDDs |
Editor:- February 22, 2010 -
Seagate today
announced
it's shipping 2TB 3.5" 7,200 RPM hard drives with a 6Gbps SAS interface.
The
new
Constellation
ES includes host-selectable power reduction options - upto 35%
for slow or idle periods.
Editor's comments:- coming 6 months
after 2TB SATA
enterprise hard drive shipments from other hard disk oems - (Hitachi
- Ultrastar A7K2000 and
WD
RE4 ) - the distinguishing feature about this is the
SAS interface.
But the "6Gbps" part looks like vanity rather than substance -
because (like all hard drives) the magnetic media delivers lower throughput and
IOPS than
you can get from many common 3Gbps
2.5"
SATA SSDs. |
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| Clarifying
SSD Pricing - where does all the money go? |
Editor:- one of the most
popular new articles published here on StorageSearch.com in recent weeks
is -
Clarifying SSD
Pricing.
SSDs
are among the most expensive items of computer hardware many of you will ever
buy. Understanding the factors which determine SSD costs is often a confusing
and irritating process. |
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And it's not made any
easier when market prices for identical capacity SSDs can vary more than 100x
to 1!
This value for money guide suggests simple tactics
to help you. ...read
the article | | | |
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| We have
hundreds
of SSD articles on StorageSearch.com |
Here, below, are some
examples.
- SSD
Market History - lists product and technology milestones in the 30 years of
the SSD market upto the end of 2009.
- RAM Cache
Ratios in flash SSDs - it's important to know the underlying RAM cache
architecture - even if you're happy with the R/W and IOPS performance.
- 2010 - 1st Fizz
in the SSD Bubble? - even the dogs in the street know this is going to be a
multibillion dollar market. Greed will play as big a part as technology in
shaping the
SSD year ahead.
- the pros and cons of
using SSD ASAPs - auto tuning SSD appliances are a new category of SSD
which entered the market in the 2nd half of 2009 to accelerate servers without
needing human tune-ups. How can you tell if they are right for you? And how
well do they work?
- the Problem
with Write IOPS - in flash SSDs - long established as a useful performance
modeling metric - this article explains why some specs are exaggerated when
applied to flash SSDs - or predict the wrong results for many common
applications.
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