Tag Archives: Flash

How SSD will emerge from the Trough of Disillusionment

November 12, 2009 – 3:57 pm

The SSD angst continues around STEC’s recent announcement, EMC’s reduced demand forecast and the enterprise SSD market in general.  Beth Parisseau interviewed [....]

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The death of the hard drive has been greatly exaggerated

November 3, 2009 – 8:13 am

SSD is all the rage in the storage industry.  Very exciting technology for sure and just now going Prime Time in the enterprise. But the rise of SSDs does [....]

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The newest, oddest USB drive

July 14, 2009 – 8:54 am

Last year it was sushi storage.  This year Calvin Klein takes the prize with these USB sunglasses. 

Now tell me what you think the next oddest USB drive will be.

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The painful path to SSD adoption in netbooks

July 13, 2009 – 8:42 am

Birth is painful. 

This universal truth is proving to be true for the nascent SSD netbook market.

Flash manufacturers have been struggling with losses due to depressed prices for a while now.

Prices are up!  Good [....]

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SSD and deduplication: turbocharger and trash compactor

June 2, 2009 – 8:55 am

In StorageMojo’s analysis of the EMC bid to take Data Domain from NetApp, Robin Harris quoted Chuck Hollis of EMC on why the deal makes sense:

From a storage perspective, [....]

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Is SSD ready? 3PAR says no

April 8, 2009 – 9:51 am

Dave Raffo says 3PAR didn’t add SSD in their latest product refresh because they didn’t need it – at least not yet, not in its current form. 

In the same [....]

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A brief history of the disk drive

March 31, 2009 – 6:23 am

 

I found a bronzed model of a 5 1/4″ disk drive circa 1980.  It got me thinking about how we’ve come from then to now.

Seagate created the first 5 1/4″ [....]

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Video games and content: more! More!

February 17, 2009 – 7:46 am

 

This video from a few years back is still technologically relevant. While video game effects age pretty quickly (although I’m still impressed with the detail 2K Sports had in its [....]

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Storage is the most important technology of the next 10 years

January 5, 2009 – 2:03 pm

Storage will make the biggest impact of any technology in the 2010’s

Think I’m crazy?  Think again.

Information and energy drive today’s world.  The internet has re-invented life and work for the digitally enabled [....]

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Intel votes for Enterprise SSDs

January 5, 2009 – 1:22 pm

 

If there was any doubt that Intel sees a future for flash off of the motherboard, their deal with HGST has put them to rest.  Hitachi will market SSDs [....]

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