flash storage

News about flash storage

Article | 25/02/2010 CompactFlash 5.0 cards could reach 144 petabytes of storage
That 64GB SDXC card is yesterday's news (figuratively and literally). The new CompactFlash 5.0 standard promises a ridiculous 144-petabyte theoretical...
Article | 9/02/2010 SSD storage fixes data center bottlenecks for a price
As a new decade opens, more and more data centre operators find themselves struggling with an enterprise bottleneck not of their own making.
Article | 6/01/2010 Slots that support SDXC flash storage reaching devices
Slots that support faster SDXC flash storage cards are reaching consumer electronics devices, which could boost the performance of devices like camcor...
Article | 4/12/2009 Flash storage should be among top data center priorities: Gartner
Flash-based storage will quickly become one of the most important technologies in the data center, according to Gartner.
Article | 12/11/2009 OCZ set to use SandForce controllers in new SSDs
Flash storage vendor OCZ Technology Group Inc. this week announced that it plans to use controllers from SandForce Inc. in its next generation of cons...

Features about flash storage

Article | 22/01/2010 Storage wrinkle: 4,500 flash drives left at the cleaners
Lost a thumb drive with important data on it? Check with your dry cleaner. A survey by a U.K.-based company shows that in the last year, 4,500 USB fla...
Article | 16/11/2009 Storage stocking-stuffers for Christmas
The more digital content that we create (music, photos, movies, etc.) and the more we want to share it with others, the more likely it is we'll need s...
Article | 24/08/2009 The cloud could be a boon for flash storage
Cloud computing and flash-based storage, two fast-emerging IT technologies, are driving each other forward as users of Internet-based services like so...

Whitepapers about flash storage

Two May Be Better Than One: Why Hard Disk Drives and Flash Belong Together

This white paper will explore the need for a caching and buffering technology between DRAM and HDDs and why Flash memory can be used to fill this need. We will go on to look at various ways that Flash and HDDs can be combined in a computer storage hierarchy. These technologies to combine Flash memory and HDDs include hybrid HDDs, Flash on the computer motherboard, and a combination of Flash and HDD storage devices in the same computer – paired storage systems.