| Foremay
samples 200K IOPS class PCIe SSD Cards |
Editor:- February 8, 2010
Foremay is
sampling
its EC188 D-series 2nd generation
fast
PCIe SSDs with
capacity upto 4TB (MLC)
and 1TB (SLC).
The new SSDs deliver sequential speeds up to 1.6GB/s
for reading and 1.5GB/s for writing, and R/W IOPS up to 200K/180K.
"IOPS is one of
the major pain points to be addressed in the deployment of today's high-end and
mission-critical servers and workstations," said Dr. Jack Winters,
Foremay's CTO and cofounder. "We hope that our new EC188 D-series PCIe SSDs
can help solve problems in the majority of those computing applications where
IOPS or speed is the bottleneck."
Editor's comments:-
Foremay's new PCIe SSDs aim at the same kind of customers who currently buy
from
Fusion-io and
Texas Memory Systems
both of whom have been shipping this type of product for over a year
already. |
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Customer qualification by OS
and application type is a prerequisite to sales in this part of the
market. Foremay will have to be aggressive on price to get volume customers
interested enough to test its products. | | |
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| Why Can't
Users find their Perfect Storage Solution with 1 Click? |
Editor:- February 5, 2010 -
for those of you who work in sales and marketing I've published a new article
this week called -
Why Isn't Web
Marketing Enterprise Technology Simpler?
Users want to buy
enterprise technology stuff.
Vendors want to sell it.
So
why can't users just click and find your products?
Pay
Google some money... and the web marketing's all done. Isn't it? |
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What could be easier...
Another easy tick on the career to-do list... Onto the next challenge... You
know there's more to it than that. ...read the article | | |
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| Clarifying
SSD Pricing - where does all the money go? |
Editor:- January 29, 2010 -
StorageSearch.com this week
published a new article -
Clarifying SSD Pricing.
SSDs are among the most
expensive items of computer hardware many of you will ever buy. |
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Understanding the factors
which determine SSD costs is often a confusing and irritating process - not
made any easier when market prices for identical capacity SSDs can vary more
than 100x to 1! This new guide suggests simple tactics to help
you. ...read the
article | | |
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| New
Directory for AoE Storage |
Editor:- January 15, 2010 -
StorageSearch.com has
published a new directory for AoE
(ATA-over-Ethernet) NAS Storage.
Although this
NAS mode first hit our news
pages in 2003 -
support for it hitherto has been miniscule and compatible products are only
available from a handful of vendors. |
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Will 2010 be the year that
it all changes? Maybe.
SSDs could play a part -
because less latency is wasted in this low level network storage interface. | | |
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are
hundreds
of articles about SSDs 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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