Category: flash memory
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Flash memory in the news
Just to make it clear, the hard drive companies are promoting Optane Memory in order to sell hard drives paired with the technology to deliver a superior user experience.
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Netlist v. Diablo Technology settled, future of Flash Memory still evolving
Originally posted on StorageSwiss.com – The Home of Storage Switzerland: The ever-increasing density of virtual infrastructures, and the need to scale databases larger than ever, is creating an ongoing need for faster storage. And while flash has become the “go to” performance option, there are environments that still need more. Nonvolatile DRAM is the…
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SanDisk Launches Its Highest Capacity SD Card Yet
The SanDisk Extreme PRO UHS-I SDHC/SDXC family includes 128 GB, 256 GB and 512 GB capacities. The new 512 GB card costs $799.99 and is available now. #94846033 / gettyimages.com via SanDisk Launches Its Highest Capacity SD Card Yet. Interesting to finally see this form factor hit the market. These cards now are as big…
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HGST brings PCM to flash show, STUNS world+dog with 3 MILLION IOPS • The Register
In a terrific demo of the wrong technology for the Flash Memory Summit, HGST is showing a PCIe-connected Phase Change Memory device running at three million IOPS with a 1.5 microsecs read latency. via HGST brings PCM to flash show, STUNS world+dog with 3 MILLION IOPS • The Register. For a very long time I’ve…
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Resistance is not futile: Here’s a cookie sheet of luke-warm RRAM that proves it • The Register
Tour said: “Our technology is the only one that satisfies every market requirement, both from a production and a performance standpoint, for nonvolatile memory. It can be manufactured at room temperature, has an extremely low forming voltage, high on-off ratio, low power consumption, nine-bit capacity per cell, exceptional switching speeds and excellent cycling endurance.” via…
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With ‘The Machine,’ HP May Have Invented a New Kind of Computer – Businessweek
If Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) founders Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard are spinning in their graves, they may be due for a break. Their namesake company is cooking up some awfully ambitious industrial-strength computing technology that, if and when it’s released, could replace a data center’s worth of equipment with a single refrigerator-size machine. via With ‘The Machine,’…
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AnandTech | The Intel SSD DC P3700 Review Part 2: NVMe on Client Workloads
Although Intel’s SSD DC P3700 is clearly targeted at the enterprise, the drive will be priced quite aggressively at $3/GB. Furthermore, Intel will be using the same controller and firmware architecture in two other, lower cost derivatives (P3500/P3600). In light of Intel’s positioning of the P3xxx family, a number of you asked for us to…
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AnandTech | Intel SSD DC P3700 Review: The PCIe SSD Transition Begins with NVMe
We don’t see infrequent blips of CPU architecture releases from Intel, we get a regular, 2-year tick-tock cadence. It’s time for Intel’s NSG to be given the resources necessary to do the same. I long for the day when we don’t just see these SSD releases limited to the enterprise and corporate client segments, but…
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PCIe hard drives? You read that right, says WD • The Register
WD will demo PCIe-connected disk drives at the Computex tech conference in Taipei, using a SATA Express interface. via PCIe hard drives? You read that right, says WD • The Register. Even though the SATA Express isn’t meant to be a long term architectural improvement over simple SATA or just PCIe drive interfaces, it is…
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AnandTech | Samsung SSD XP941 Review: The PCIe Era Is Here
I don’t think there is any other way to say this other than to state that the XP941 is without a doubt the fastest consumer SSD in the market. It set records in almost all of our benchmarks and beat SATA 6Gbps drives by a substantial margin. It’s not only faster than the SATA 6Gbps…
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