There are 3 ways to integrate flash in your customers’ solutions today
Option 3: Build your own hybrid solutions
Today hybrid HDD-SSD flash drives are on the market for notebook applications. Future versions are in the works for other applications.
While the world waits, system builders can add the value themselves by combining flash and disk drives in their solutions. In particular, business applications can benefit from flash and disk tiers within a server or storage system. It’s not that difficult, now that SSDs that look just like disks to your OS are generally available. Mark Ferelli at InfoStor wrote on this a while ago.
Just a little flash goes a long way to juice your system’s performance, without adding exhorbitant costs. Not to mention adding some serious differentiation for the right customer.
Anybody out there doing this today? What’s your application?
Using flash storage today, part 2
Using flash storage today, part 1
Categories: Business Solutions · Industry trends · Servers · Uncategorized
Tagged: disk drive, HDD, Hybrid, InfoStor, Mark Ferelli, solid state disk, SSD, storage, system builder
The ultimate example of the ubiquity of content: the Starry Night Bed, complete with 1.5 TB of storage. If a bed has that much content, what’s next?
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Tagged: engadget, Starry night, terabyte
Easy add-on sell for secure data on the go
Seagate announced its new Maxtor BlackArmor secure portable drive today. 160GB, full AES encryption. Everything stored on this puppy is automatically encrypted and virtually hack-proof.
Seagate’s taken a leading position in truly secure storage devices. This drive follows the already-released Momentus FDE secure notebook drive.
This is an easy add-on solution for desktop or notebook customers. Worry-free mobile storage!
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Tagged: AES, BlackArmor, encryption, hard drive, Maxtor, mobile, storage
