As we move into 2019, storage performance becomes more important than ever. At the media level, vendors are pushing the boundaries with fast solid-state technologies like NAND flash and 3D-Xpoint. These products provide performance capabilities we’ve never seen before. Storage system vendors then take components and build storage solutions, either as bespoke hardware or part… Read more »
Interested in learning more about NVMe? Download our free 21-page white paper report (no registration required) here NVMe in the Data Centre The rate of growth in flash media is truly incredible. In ten years, we’ve gone from highly expensive SLC devices to a range of NAND flash media for all requirements. Flash manufacturers continue… Read more »
We’re probably all familiar with the concept of the HDD or SSD reliability bathtub curve (figure 1). This shows how over the lifetime of a drive, failures typically follow a pattern where failure rate increases over time to a steady state, then increases again as the device wears out. But have you considered the idea… Read more »
We are living in a golden age of storage media, where new products come to market offering ever greater performance with lower latency than previous generations. Today the hard drive and even early flash drives look positively archaic compared to modern NVMe drives built from 3D-XPoint, capable of delivering hundreds of thousands of IOPS and… Read more »
To date we’ve only seen QLC NAND storage in the consumer SD card format, however, that’s set to change as Micron announces the first QLC SATA SSD for the data centre. The Micron 5210 ION SSD will deliver up to 7.68TB of capacity in a standard 2.5″, 7mm form factor. But there’s a catch –… Read more »
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 proof of concept 60TB drive demonstrated by Seagate only a few years ago. How real is 100TB in… Read more »
Samsung has just announced 30.72TB in a single SAS SSD. Let’s just think what that means for a moment. That’s around 6,500 DVDs or 1,200 Blu-Ray disks, depending on how you do your maths. It’s an amazing achievement. In that form factor, 30TB in a 2.5″ drive is 6x the largest HDD available and around… Read more »
The Dell EMC XtremIO team recently presented at Storage Field Day 14. It was an opportunity to catch up on a technology I’ve been less than positive about over the years. So has XtremIO X2 moved on? What does the future look like for the all-flash platform? XtremIO Background XtremIO Inc was an Israeli start-up,… Read more »
One of the more interesting discussions from SFD14 was the review of the various mid-range platforms that Dell EMC now offers. The merger of the two organisations brought Unity and VNX(e) from EMC, while SC (Compellent) and EqualLogic came from the Dell side. Each platform has very different characteristics. Unity and VNX(e) have heritage from… Read more »
