Tag Archives: SSD

VulcanCast Follow Up – A few thoughts on 60TB SSDs

So last week I was kindly invited to share a ride in Marc Farley‘s car (not as dodgy as it sounds, I promise!). The premise was to discuss the [..]

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Data Corruption – The Silent Killer (aka Cosmic Rays are baaaad mmmkay?)

If you have worked in the IT industry for a reasonable amount of time, you have probably heard the term bit rot, referring to the gradual decay of [..]

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You had me at Tiered Non-Volatile Memory!

Memory isn’t cheap! Despite the falling costs and increasing sizes of DRAM DIMMS, it’s still damned expensive compared to most non-volatile media at a price per GB. What’s [..]

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Secondary can be just as important as Primary

There can be little doubt these days, that the future of the storage industry for primary transactional workloads is All Flash. Finito, that ship has sailed, the door [..]

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