ssds

OSNews: "Instead of resorting to things like delaying all writes until shutdown and storing them in RAM, SanDisk claims it has a better option.

At WinHEC yesterday, the company introduced its Extreme FFS, which it claims will improve write performance on SSDs by a factor of 100."

Linus' Blog: "The kernel summit was two weeks ago, and at the end of that I got one of the new 80GB solid state disks from Intel.

Since then, I've been wanting to talk to people about it because I'm so impressed with it..."

Fusion IO, which has made a name for itself with high-performance SSDs for the enterprise segment, preps its first consumer SSD - which promises to be more than twice as fast as the fastest SSDs on the market ...

At today's Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in San Francisco, the chipmaker announced new SSDs (solid-state drives).

The 1.8-inch X-18M and 2.5-inch X-25M target laptops and desktops, while the 2.5-inch X25E, which boasts faster write speeds, targets servers.

Buffalo releases 2 PCI-E SSDs for the ASUS Eee PC 90x models. The SSDs are standby compliant & do use the PCI-E slot of both Eee PC 90x models.

Tech Broiler: "SSDs perform exceedingly well for things like MySQL databases, provided you tweak your kernel, BIOS, and filesystems accordingly.

Veteran Linux hacker Geoff “Mandrake” Harrison was happy to provide me with some insight from a recent O’Reilly MySQL conference in which he and his colleagues presented on how to make your MySQL machines fly using SSDs."

Is 20th-century conventional Winchester multi-platter, multi-head random-access disk technology too quaint for you?

Want to run your PC or server on storage devices that consume far less energy than the ...

Kevin Burton’s NEW FeedBlog: "I need to give it a bit more thought but it looks like we’re going forward with deploying Spinn3r on SSD.

Specifically, machines with 3 SSDs on Linux software RAID. The performance of SSDs is nothing short of astounding..."

Super Talent Technology, a leading manufacturer of Flash storage solutions and DRAM memory modules, announced today that, for a limited time its line of MasterDrive MX SSDs will include a free CD containing the Ubuntu Desktop Edition Linux operating system and the OpenOffice software suite.

SanDisk is prepping a new line of diminutive solid state drives , designed specifically to fit the cramped quarters of low-cost PCs and laptops.