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Hitachi GST, Intel to develop SAS and Fibre Channel solid-state drives
Disk drive maker Hitachi GST teams with Intel to develop enterprise SSDs with SAS and Fibre Channel interfaces. Article | 03 Dec 2008
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Company's server performance soars with Intel solid-state drives
Using Intel solid-state drives instead of hard drives slashed latency from 100 msec to 16 msec for a data processing services firm. Article | 20 Nov 2008
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NetApp discloses its solid-state drive and 8 Gbps Fibre Channel plans
As part of a bundled announcement that includes a new midrange disk array model, NetApp says it will support 8 Gbps Fibre Channel and solid-state drives by February 2009.. Article | 04 Nov 2008
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Texas Memory claims 1M IOPS with solid-state drives
The RamSan-5000 holds 20 TB of flash and DRAM solid-state drives in a centrally managed multinode system, which TMS claims draws only 3,000W of power. Article | 30 Oct 2008
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Interest in solid-state storage gains traction
Storage vendors are committed to solid-state drives, although they remain split on how to best deliver SSDs to address cost and reliability issues. Article | 23 Oct 2008
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Intel to ship enterprise SSD with increased reliability by year-end
Intel claims its SSD for the enterprise offers higher reliabiilty, more I/O channels, and better write endurance than other enterprise-class SSDs. Article | 19 Aug 2008
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Fusion-io brings RAID to solid-state storage
Fusion-io brings RAID to SSDs; Western Digital ships backplane-compatible VelociRaptor; Intel shrinks PATA SSD; Fantom GreenDrives cuts back on power Article | 14 Aug 2008
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EMC brings thin provisioning, MAID and SSD to Clariion CX4
Along with support for solid-state disk, EMC's next-gen Clariion includes thin provisioning and MAID, and a new architecture for mixing Fibre Channel and iSCSI. Article | 31 Jul 2008
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Enterprise systems may need redesign to benefit from solid state drives
Lab tests lead IDC to conclude that enterprise systems will need to be redesigned to get the full benefit from flash. Systems will need the intelligence to recognize when they're dealing with SSDs, which write slower than they read, and feed them dat... Article | 16 Jul 2008
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Storage administrators wary of SSD deployment
Don't expect hard drives to disappear from enterprise storage just yet. Users say they will take a wait-and-see approach before implementing any new storage medium, and vendors are split whether to put the SSDs in servers or disk arrays. Article | 26 Jun 2008