Apple appears to have downgraded the Serial ATA interface of at least two models in its new MacBook Pro laptop line, a move that could effect the I/O of internal solid-state disk (SSD) drives and external hardware.
Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday gave a strong, though qualified, endorsement for running Windows 7 on PCs equipped with solid-state disk (SSD) drives, saying it has tuned the upcoming operating system to run faster on the still-emerging storage technology.
As solid-state disk (SSD) technology closes in on hard-disk drive (HDD) capacity and price, experts say it may not be long before spinning disks are a thing of the past and a computer's storage resides in flash memory on the motherboard.
Experts from IBM, Seagate Inc. and storage interface card vendor LSI Corp. Tuesday said solid state disk (SSD) drive technology will replace high-end Fibre Channel and serial SCSI disk drives for several I/O-intensive applications in the enterprise. However, the industry still needs standards to measure SSD performance and unit price will continue to limit adoption.
EMC last week turned the world of high-end storage on its head with the introduction of flash-based solid state disk (SSD) for its Symmetrix DMX-4 storage arrays. You might say that that's nothing new - consumer devices have been using SSD for several years. You'd be wrong. The SSDs EMC is using are single-level NAND flash-based storage from STEC. Consumer devices use multi-level cell flash technology.
Solid state disk is getting a bigger play in the enterprise. IDC released findings on their testing that reports the differential between SSD and traditional mechanical drives may not be all that the industry has made it out to be.
Amazon Web Services has improved the performance of its Redshift data warehouse with new SSD-based nodes, which can also lower the cost of the service as long as storage capacity needs are also low.
Tablets are mostly packed with flash storage, but Hewlett-Packard has made an exception and plugged a high-capacity hard drive into its latest Split X2 budget tablet.
Samsung is coming out with a new portable solid-state drive that's not meant only for PCs: it will also plug into smartphones and tablets that support USB Type-C connections.
Fixstars' Olive is like the Raspberry Pi of servers, but with a twist -- it packs 13TB of solid-state drive storage in a system that could be held in one hand.
After failing to gain market traction with its first iteration of hybrid drives three years ago, Seagate today announced a new hard-disk and solid-state combination drive with as much as 500GB of capacity, but with a 250GB model starting at $113.
Our test focused on three areas: CPU performance and power consumption, 10GbE network performance, and solid state disk (SSD) performance and power consumption.
We tested Apple Snow Leopard on two Apple-supplied servers, an older one that’s been in the lab as a test unit, and a newer XServe with 8GB of DRAM, SSD 128GB boot drive, three SAS secondary drives in RAID 5 configuration; twin GBE ports, two 2.6Ghz Intel quad r-core 64-bit CPUs. Our benchmarks were performed on the newer Xserve. We also tested upgrade time from OS 10.5.8 to 10.6.0, and found it to be short. We tested MacOS 10.6 on a switched GBE network connected via broadband to our cloud located in nF
I was deeply in techno-lust when I opened a UPS box the other day and pulled from it Samsung's new 256GB, SATA II laptop solid-state disk (SSD) drive -- stainless steel all around and oh-so-sleek. It sat in front of me and veritably screamed, "a quarter of a terabyte on flash memory." I didn't care that I didn't need that much storage capacity on my laptop. I wanted it anyway.
With the acquisition of Fujitsu would position itself to become a leading contender in the enterprise-class solid-state disk (SSD) drive market, as well as initially leap to the head of the pack in the 2.5-inch HDD space, say industry observers.
Adaptec this week was the latest vendor to get into the red-hot solid state drive (SSD) market with the introduction of an I/O controller that speeds performance by as much 5x over traditional controller implementations.
If you can't afford Intel's superfast Optane SSDs but need a massive speed boost, the company's latest SSD DC P4600 and SSD DC P4500 SSDs may fill the need.
Much attention has been given to hybrid arrays that couple solid state drives (SSD) with rotating media. And, many industry experts are declaring the demise of high-cost Fibre Channel drives as low-cost Serial ATA drives (SATA), when coupled with a relatively small amount of SSD storage, can provide an extreme boost in performance at a relatively low cost.