Pure Storage Announces New Hardware Platform – FlashArray//m
This week has been an interesting one in the world of all-flash storage. Both Pure Storage and HP have announcements; this post covers Pure and their new “FlashArray//m”. The new FlashArray//m...
View ArticleConflating Reliability and Endurance in SSDs
Last week I sat through a presentation by Samsung on the evolution of their DRAM and flash business. One question raised by a journalist in the room related to the reliability of flash drives. The...
View ArticleThe Rise of Ultra-Fast Storage Appliances
The early days of shared storage were focused around fixing some of the problems experienced with having multiple disk drives in every server, namely – availability, resiliency, shared access and...
View ArticleAre DataCore’s SPC Benchmarks Unfair?
DataCore has been active over recent months with benchmarks based on their new SANsymphony Parallel Server offering. The most recent of these claims 5.1 million SPC-1 IOPS at $0.08/SPC-1 IOPS and 0.32...
View ArticleSeagate 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...
View ArticleUnreliable 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...
View ArticleM.2 SSD Drive Format is Under-rated by Enterprise Storage
Last week I was reading this article on Ars Technica discussing the latest Samsung M.2 format drives to hit the market. In something similar to a DIMM format, you get up to 2TB of capacity and...
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Solid State Arrays: Pure Storage Inc
A clear focus of the recent Tech Field Day #8 event was the use of flash storage (or SSDs) for storage arrays or within hybrid solutions. Pure Storage offers an all flash storage array, which they say...
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August Storage Announcements – Pure Storage
August seems to have been the month for a huge raft of storage-related announcements and I’m still getting to grips with the detail, after being away on holiday for the whole month. As I start to pick...
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The Fall of STEC and Rise of Western Digital
In a news announcement yesterday, STEC Inc, makers of solid state flash drives (SSDs) announced a “merger” with (i.e. was acquired by) Western Digital, one of the leading hard disk drive manufacturers....
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SanDisk Acquires Fusion-io
It has been widely reported and confirmed through a press release, that Fusion-io is to be acquired by SanDisk at a value of around $11.25 per share in cash with the deal expected to close this year....
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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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Flash Diversity: High Capacity Drives from Nimbus and Micron
The desire to provide cheaper and greater capacity storage devices knows no bounds and has been a focus of the industry for the last 60 years. Following on from Seagate’s 60TB “concept” flash drive,...
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Making The Case for SATA SSDs
Update: Looks like Samsung released new versions of their 800 Series, also focused on increased endurance (link) although products are a mix of MLC and TLC. Micron has recently announced a refresh to...
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What is the Technology Behind Samsung Z-NAND?
This week Samsung announced a new solid-state drive based on what the company is calling Z-NAND. The SZ985 Z-SSD (again a new acronym) offers high performance and low latency, compared to a...
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Backblaze HDD Statistics for 2017
For the last four years, Backblaze has been producing statistics from their pool of hard drives. The company provides cloud storage that started with backup and now covers S3-like capabilities. The...
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The Practicality of In-Situ Processing
On last week’s Storage Unpacked podcast, we talked to Chris Mellor about IoT. He raised the subject of “in-situ processing” or basically taking compute to storage. On the face of it, this seems like...
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Solid State Arrays: SolidFire
One of the attendees at TFD#8 was SolidFire Inc, another startup company focusing on selling entirely solid-state disk arrays. As you’d expect, they have their own niche and part of the market they...
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Why Deterministic Storage Performance is Important
In the days of spinning media, I/O performance was anything but consistent. When mechanical head movement is involved, response time can vary enormously. Actually, the variation of I/O isn’t just to...
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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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