SSD - News, Features, and Slideshows

• Intel will provide early access to fast Optane SSDs via the cloud

  Intel isn't yet shipping its Optane SSDs, but they soon will be available for testing over the cloud.

• Seagate built a whopping 60TB SSD that it aims ship next year

  Nobody expected this: Seagate has announced a monster 60TB solid-state drive -- the highest capacity SSD to date -- that could ship next year.

• A Raspberry Pi 3 competitor will boast an SSD storage slot

  You can't put SSDs on Raspberry Pi 3, but a competitive board coming soon will have that option.

• AMD gets into SSDs with value Radeon R3 drives. But US only for now.

  AMD is jumping into the SSD market with Radeon drives for laptops and desktops.

• Akitio's combines two speedy technologies in blazing external SSD

  If you have $US1299 to spend, Akitio's external Thunder3 PCIe SSD storage system will deliver blazing speed and more.

Whitepapers about SSD

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  Flash implications in enterprise storage array designs

  This whitepaper examines some common practices in enterprise storage array design and discusses opportunities for improving enterprise storage strategy by thinking with random I/O rather than sequential. A good enterprise storage array attempts to sequentialise the workload seen by the hard drives, regardless of the native data pattern at the host level. A single Solid State Drive (SSD) is capable of random I/O that would require hundreds of hard drives to match. However, obtaining this performance from an SSD is challenging. A new class of enterprise data storage system doesn’t substitute flash, but engineers an entirely new array to unlock flash’s full performance potential and deliver array-based capabilities