Data Storage for Mobile Computing
SSDs move into a class of their own
EDN, 8/11/2009, by Tim Harbert
A new market for SSDs (solid-state disks) is heating up, driven by the needs of high-end servers in data centers. The I/O bottleneck has gotten a choke hold on enterprise class servers. Particularly within large companies with huge data centers that handle high volumes of data requests – think Google and Twitter – the time it takes for data to move from memory to the processor has become too long. And as software-as-a-service and cloud applications become more popular, it’s only going to get worse.
Read more…Review: Hard-disk vs. Solid State Drive: Is an SSD worth the money?
ComputerWorld, 6/18/2009, By Lucas Mearian
Solid-state disk (SSD) drives are all the rage among techies. The drives use non-volatile NAND flash memory, meaning there are no moving parts. Because there is no actuator arm and read/write head that must seek out data on a platter like on a hard disk drive (HDD), they are faster in reading and, in most cases, writing data. But SSDs are also much more expensive than their hard-disk drive (HDD) counterparts, which offer 300GB of capacity or more for less than $100.
Read more…SSDs and Sneakernets: Flash Memory's New Role
PC Magazine, 8/22/08, by Tim Bajarin
New manufacturing technologies and price cuts mean we'll see flash memory everywhere.
Quote: …flash drives (that's solid-state drives, or SSDs) will become ubiquitous in products like laptop computers. Today, almost all laptops sport hard drives, and that won't change anytime soon. In fact, I believe that they will always be an important option. But if flash drives ride the cost curve down and become yet more affordable, they could become a very important storage medium for portable computing.
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