Tag Archives: RAID

Using SSD controller technology as a differentiator: Kingston adds another data point with SSDNow Enterprise-class drives

Posted on September 5, 2012 by sleibson2

Memory and SSD vendor Kingston Technology has just announced enterprise-class SSDs called the SSDNow E100 in capacities of 100, 200, and 400 Gbytes. What I find interesting about this announcement are the emphasis on endurance and reliability (“10x improvements … … Continue reading →

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How many SSDs does it take to saturate PCIe Gen 3? Would you believe 16 drives?

Posted on August 6, 2012 by sleibson2

It’s now possible to conduct some interesting performance tests on real PCIe Gen 3 products and the video below shows you a PCIe Gen 3 RAID card talking to 16 SSDs, which is the number of drives needed to saturate … Continue reading →

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Interview with Whiptail’s CTO James Candelaria demonstrates how SSD controllers can greatly improve NAND Flash endurance by managing write amplification

Posted on April 9, 2012 by sleibson2

As NAND Flash geometries continue to shrink, device endurance specs have suffered, which is a significant challenge when using these devices in SSDs. This interview with Whiptail’s CTO James Candelaria discusses how his company’s approach to buffering writes in SSD … Continue reading →

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LSI Corp releases multiple PCIe SSD and Flash-cached RAID storage cards in Nytro portfolio

Posted on April 2, 2012 by sleibson2

LSI Corp has just announced a number of products in its Nytro line of PCIe-based storage cards. The LSI Nytro WarpDrive is a second-generation SSD card available in capacities of 200Gbytes to 3.2Tbytes using a memory-stacking architecture to load the … Continue reading →

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