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Seagate Ups The Ante with 60TB SSD
Hot on the heels of Samsung’s 15TB SSD, Seagate has announced their own hyper-capacity drive, an (as yet) unnamed 60TB SAS solid state disk. The new product was announced at the recent Flash Memory...
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Unreliable Disks for Better Scale-out Storage
Recently I was asked to review a document that used as a reference a piece of work from Google which talked about the need to relax the resiliency levels of hard drives and SSDs. The premise is...
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Dude, Where’s my 100TB Hard Drive?
It wasn’t that long ago we were being promised hard drives of unimaginable capacities. I’m sure that at some stage triple digit numbers were being talked about. However today we’re stuck with a...
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SanDisk 400GB MicroSD Card – QLC in Action?
Yesterday SanDisk/Western Digital announced the availability of a 400GB microSD card, doubling the capacity of their previous offering. In a press release WD said: Western Digital achieved this...
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Can Violin Systems Successfully Rise from the Ashes of Violin Memory?
I recently met up with the CEO of Violin Systems, Ebrahim Abbasi, for a chat about the industry and the future of the company. Those who knew Violin Memory will be familiar with this company as it is...
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What is the Technology Behind Samsung Z-NAND?
Update: Since this article was written, Toshiba has released XL-FLASH, a competitor to Z-NAND. This also offers low latency, although so far only read performance has been quoted. This part of the...
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Dude, Here’s Your 100TB Flash Drive!
It’s been only a month since I wrote about Samsung’s 30TB solid state disk and already the bar has been set higher. This week Nimbus Data announced a 100TB 3.5″ SSD (the DC100) that blows past the...
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What are TBW (Terabytes Written) and DWPD (Device Writes Per Day)?
TBW is an acronym for Terabytes Written and DWPD is an acronym for Device Writes Per Day. Both are measures of the endurance of flash storage. Flash storage has a limit on the number of write (or...
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QLC NAND – What can we expect from the technology?
Since NAND flash storage was first introduced into enterprise computing, we’ve seen a rapid explosion in the types and capabilities of flash products that can now be deployed in servers, HCI solutions...
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VAST Data launches with new scale-out storage platform
“Build it and they will come” they say, or at least, something similar. So, Vast Data has built a new scale-out storage platform and hopes that customers will flock to adopt it. It’s 2019 – do we...
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