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Endurance Is Money
If you keep up with the SMART Thinking blog, you know we love to cover endurance and the benefits of having an SSD that lasts. While reading an interesting article in CIOL entitled, “Big data storage: Five must-haves for enterprises,” my belief that endurance is the key to meeting the needs of the new enterprise … Continue reading
Movin’ On Up: Zsolt’s List of the Top SSD Companies
Zsolt Kerekes of StorageSearch.com produces a quarterly list of the top SSD companies that you absolutely have to check out if you’re in the market for SSDs. Out of approximately 400 companies in the SSD industry today, this mouse-loving editor finds and highlights the best of the best. Since we established ourselves as an independent … Continue reading
Optimus SSD Reviews Reveal Optimum Results
The reviews of our flagship product, Optimus SSD, are in…and they were terrific! The SSD Review and Storage Review have put our Optimus SAS SSD through rigorous testing and they were not disappointed. Both reviewers agreed that Optimus performs better than an SLC SSD! Here are some highlights from the reviews:
Response to SearchSolidStateStorage’s “Prolonging SSD Life”
In a recent article on SearchSolidStateStorage, Phil Goodwin discussed the benefits of prolonging the life of SSDs. One might see how this caught our attention as prolonging SSD life is what we excel at. After all, what is the value of performance and capacity if SSDs aren’t built for the future of the enterprise? For … Continue reading
Will Data Center Storage Infrastructure Ever Become 100% Solid-State Based?
We recently came across an interesting article by our good friend, George Crump of Storage Switzerland, which appeared in Storage Newsletter earlier this month. The article, “SSD Can Now Achieve HDD Price Parity” discusses the ability for SSDs to achieve price parity with HDDs today by abandoning HDD form factors in favor of less-expensive, proprietary … Continue reading
Demartek SSD Deployment Guide Release Gets SMART
Good news for technical professionals! Due to the enthusiasm for solid-state storage in the data center, the analyst firm, Demartek, has recently released an SSD Deployment Guide. As you will see in the video below, we were one of the companies included in this edition of Demartek’s series of technology deployment guides. Within the report, … Continue reading
Are we finally approaching the dawn of the SSD?
One of the industry’s most visible analysts, Jim Handy, recently posted an article on his Forbes blog titled, “SSD Growth is Demand, not Supply, Limited as CEOs Claim.” In the article, he disputes the opinions of the CEOs of Seagate, Western Digital, and SanDisk, all of whom believe that the SSD will never replace the … Continue reading
