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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.
pcie  SSDs - click to read article 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?
read the article - Why Can't Users find their Perfect Storage Solutions with 1 Click? 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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SSDs and Sun-Oracle... past failures / future challenges
Editor:- February 3, 2010 - in a new article today I look ahead to the next 5 years of Oracle, Solaris and SSDs.
article in the SPARC Product Directory - re SSDs, Oracle and Sun I also look back and give you my list of Sun's biggest market successes and failures. ...read the article
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25nm Flash will Double SSD Capacities in Q2
Editor:- February 1, 2010 - Intel and Micron today announced they are sampling the world's 1st 25nm NAND flash memory.
Flash Memory and nv ram This gives 8GB MLC (classic 2 bit) flash memory in a stackable TSOP. The new chips will enable higher density SSDs to ship in volume in Q2.
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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.
Clarifying SSD Pricing - where does all the money go? - click to read the article 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.
AoE storage 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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There 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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Say Goodbye to the RAID HBA...

from the article Storage Market Outlook 2010 to 2015
The high end of the RAID controller market is going to disappear.

There's little point in spending money aggregating IOPS in an array of hard disks - if the result costs more, is slower and is less reliable to operate.

Some oems, like EasyCo, have been marketing arrays of COTS 2.5" SSDs which use traditional RAID controllers since 2007. But this "open" type of design approach has been a niche within the SSD rackmount market.

Controller companies need high volume markets. Within the server accelerator part of the SSD market there are too many performance and design compromises involved in keeping the SSD and RAID controller as separate sub-systems. So fast RAID controller companies have to integrate SSD functionality - or lose this market.

AMCC 3ware (later acquired by LSI) was the 1st RAID controller to publicly confirm it was working on SSD related products - in May 2008. This was in response to StorageSearch.com asking all the leading RAID companies what their SSD plans were. Most of them - at that time - didn't seem to realize that the SSD market would soon intersect with their businesses and render their fast controllers irrelevant.

Viking was one of the 1st oems to include a true SSD (with wear-leveling) as a module for RAID adapters in early 2009. But such solutions merely improve a product type within a declining market - rather than extend the market's life.

SSD ASAPs - Auto-tuning SSD Accelerated Pools of storage - represent one way for traditional RAID companies to leverage their technology assets garnered from their hard drive experience - while making inroads into the SSD space. It's a new market in which there are no established market leaders.

PCIe SSDs are the quickest way for HBA companies to enter the SSD market -because of the low technical entry costs. And in January 2010 LSI announced its intentions to enter this market segment - making it approximately the 163rd company to enter the SSD market.
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Top news stories in recent weeks gone by
Each link below takes you to a week of news.

ioSafe's disaster proof backup SSD
InnoDisk enters PCIe SSD Market
Seagate announces specs for its 1st SSD
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Top Storage Articles & Subjects - January 2010
  1. the Solid State Disks Buyers Guide
  2. the SSD Bookmarks
  3. War of the Disks: Hard Disk Drives vs. Flash SSDs
  4. the Top 10 SSD OEMs
  5. the Fastest SSDs
  6. PCIe SSD Market
  7. SSD Myths and Legends - "write endurance"
  8. 2.5" SSD Market
  9. Disk to disk backup / virtual tape
  10. SSD news & directory
  11. NAS, DAS or SAN? - Choosing the Technology
  12. Flash Memory vs. Hard Disks - Which Will Win?
  13. 1.8" SSD Market
  14. 3.5" SSD Market
  15. A Storage Architecture Guide
  16. Hard Disk Market news & comment
  17. After SSDs... What Next?
  18. RAM SSDs versus Flash SSDs - which is Best?
  19. SATA SSD Market
  20. Are MLC SSDs Ever Safe in Enterprise Apps?
  21. Notebook SSD Market
  22. 2010 - 1st Fizz in the SSD Bubble?
  23. RAM SSD Market
  24. What's a Solid State Disk?
  25. the Benefits of SAS for External Subsystems
  26. the Problem with Write IOPS - in flash SSDs
  27. Can you trust flash SSD specs & benchmarks?
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click to see profile and editor's analysis for Intel
SSD Bookmarks

suggested by - Kevin T Crow, Strategy Specialist, NSG, Intel
Here's an article written by or about Intel

Enterprise-wide Deployment of Notebook PCs with Solid-State Drives

Kevin says he chose this article because "It will give the reader an overview of the benefits experienced by the enterprise after deploying notebooks with solid state drives."

The article is a case study about the productivity benefits of using SSD based notebooks instead of hard drive notebooks inside an enterprise (Intel). Following an internal evaluation Intel found the benefits so "compelling" that it decided to deploy up to 10,000 SSD notebooks to its own employees.

Other SSD article suggestions...

The SSD Relapse: Understanding and Choosing the Best SSD - published by AnandTech

Kevin says "This is the latest in a long series of reviews that compare solid state drives and discusses the technology behind them. Overall the series does a very good job educating the reader on what they need to know when making a solid state drive purchase decision."

Editor:- thanks Kevin for sharing your SSD links.

see also:- Intel - editor mentions on STORAGEsearch.com
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read the article about SSD integrity written by SandForce
Data Integrity Challenges in flash SSD Design
Editor:- October 16, 2009 - StorageSearch.com recently published a new article called - Data Integrity Challenges in flash SSD Design - written by Kent Smith Senior Director, Product Marketing, SandForce.

Since bursting onto the SSD scene in April 2009, SandForce has achieved remarkably high reader popularity. How did a company whose business is designing SSD controllers achieve this? - especially when the direct market for its products today numbers less than 1,000 oems.

The answer is - that if you want to know what the future of 2.5" enterprise SATA SSDs might look like -you have to look at the leading technology cores that will affect this market. Even if you're not planning to use SandForce based products yourself - you can't afford to ignore them - because they are setting the agenda.

Reliability is the next new thing for SSD designers and users to start worrying about.
read the article about SSD integrity A common theme you will hear from all fast SSD companies is that the faster you make an SSD go - the more effort you have to put into understanding and engineering data integrity to eliminate the risk of "silent errors." ...read the article
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