A Faster RealSSD™ C400
Updated: 2011-08-31 17:11:56
Home About the Micron Blog Aug 2011 30 Ben Thiel Comments 0 A Faster RealSSD™ C400 Like any innovative tech company , we’re always searching for ways to make our products better . We’ve engineered some big read performance gains that will make a noticeable difference for our C400 and m4 SSDs . We’re bundling the improvements into our latest firmware release , which is available now for all . customers Like any firmware release , we built in the usual stability and reliability improvements that our testing team identified over the past months . But the real news is that the new code provides a significant boost in read performance across all capacities . Sequential reads are up by 20 for all drives 85 MB s increase putting the C400 m4 over the 500 MB s mark . Random 4k reads are up , too .
Microsoft specifies two different metrics on sequential read rates for database backup activity in their Exchange Solution Reviewed Program (ESRP) reports MB read/sec per database MB read/sec total per server Our problem with these metrics is that they don’t say … Continue reading →
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IBM with the help of a Columbia, Cornell, University of Wisconsin (Madison) and University of California creates the first generation of neuromorphic chips (press release and video) which mimics the human brain’s computational architecture implemented via silicon. The chip is a … Continue reading →
I heard about this last week but saw another notice today. Millenniata has made what they believe to be a DVD which has a 1000 year archive life they call the M-Disc . I have written before about the lack … Continue reading →
SATA-IO recently announced a new specification for an PCIe and SATA-IO specification (better described in the presentation) that will provide a SATA device interface directly connected to a server’s PCIe bus. The new working specification offers either 8Gbps or 16Gbps depending … Continue reading →
Home About the Micron Blog Aug 2011 10 Alyson Outen Comments 0 It’s Time for the Flash Memory Summit I’m at the Flash Memory Summit in Santa Clara , California where final preparations are underway on the tradeshow floor . We’re a long-time participant in the Summit and are really excited for the opportunity to speak and meet with our partners and peers in the . industry On Tuesday , Micron’s Vice President of NAND Solutions Group , Glen Hawk , gave a keynote address to an overflowing crowd of nearly 1,000 tech industry enthusiasts . In his speech on the Alchemy of NAND Flash” Hawk highlighted Micron’s leadership in cutting-edge technology and his optimism about our ability to scale the infamous memory . wall At Micron we plan on jumping right over the wall . We’re confident in the future
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OCZ just released a new version of their enterprise class Z-drive SSD storage with pretty impressive performance numbers (up to 500K IOPS [probably read] with 2.8GB/sec read data transfer). Bootability These new drives are bootable SCSI devices and connect directly to … Continue reading →