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SanDisk SSD: A More Reliable Alternative To The Laptop HDD
White Papers In contrast, durability is at the top of the list of SanDisk SSD benefits. With no spinning disks or read/write head arms that must move over these disks to locate files, the SSD is immune from the most common HDD failure, a head crash, which can...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Why SSD Makers Don't Talk SSDs Up
Blog SSD manufacturers have a dirty little secret that that don't want you to know about. There is a reason for this mismatch, and this is the dirty secret that SSD makers don't like to talk about, at least not in public: namely, that SSDs are simply...
[March 6, 2008, 15:32]
Getting Best Transfer Rate From SSD As HD Replacement In Laptop.
Talkback How do you connect the SSD to a laptop/notebook to replace the HD to get the optimum transfer rate?
[June 18, 2007, 18:47]
Intel To Launch 160GB SSD This Year
News Intel has confirmed plans to launch solid state drives (SSD) this week at the Intel Developer Forum in Shanghai, and claimed SSDs will beat their hard disk drive equivalents on failure rates. The move will pit Intel against the likes of Toshiba and...
[April 3, 2008, 10:06]
Why SSD Makers Don't Talk SSDs Up
Blog Comment My mistake, the URL to the radiation experiment on SSDs should work now. Here it is again just in case: http://resources.zdnet.co.uk/articles/video/0,1000002009,39287414,00.htm
[March 26, 2008, 16:16]
Why SSD Makers Don't Talk SSDs Up
Blog Comment Hello, the link to "exposed to radioactivity" does not work. How can I get the content of this article? Thanks, Wieslaw
[March 26, 2008, 15:43]
Samsung Launches 256GB Peak In SSD
News The 2.5-inch, 256GB, multi-level cell (MLC) solid-state drive (SSD) is only 9.5mm thick, measuring 100.3mm long and 69.85mm wide. The company announced the new drive, which the company claims is the largest-capacity SSD drive to be offered with a...
[May 27, 2008, 16:16]
The High Performance SAN Alliance: SAN, SSD, And Virtualization
White Papers Companies in nearly every business and discipline are deploying Storage Area Networks (SANs) as a powerful means of controlling the escalating cost and complexity of administering, managing, and moving data.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Evaluating The SSD Total Cost Of Ownership
White Papers This paper explores the benefits of Solid State Drives (SSDs) and how they impact the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) within the mobile PC environment. The technology factors that make SSDs a viable and beneficial option are discussed in this context.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
The Sorry State Of Solid State
Leader One of the most desirable items for any enthusiastic early adopter of IT is the solid-state disk drive, or SSD. Solid state should mean faster and safer, yet reliable sources suggest that up to 30 percent of SSD-equipped laptops are being returned.
[March 18, 2008, 17:29]
Achieving High-Level Windows NT Scalability With Solid State Disk
White Papers SSD can boost the I/O performance of Windows NT by 10 to 20 times, improving existing single or multi-processor NT system performance without adding additional CPU or memory resources. SSD also raises NT server I/O performance into mid/high-end...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Web Performance Enhancement With Solid State Disk
White Papers Certain Web-enabled Internet and Intranet systems can provide great benefits from the use of solid state disk (SSD). The application of SSD provides beneficial side effects including reliability, flexibility and the scalability needed for extremely...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
A Performance Based Evaluation Of The MTI Database Accelerator Using Sybase Adaptive Server/Enterprise And Sybase Adaptive Server/IQ Database Products
White Papers This document details a series of comparative tests aimed at showing the performance advantages of using a Solid State Disk (SSD). In addition the SSD was tested against both the Sybase Adaptive Server/Enterprise 11.5 and the Sybase Adaptive Server...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Datacenter SSDs: Solid Footing For Growth
White Papers The forecast for SSD integration into datacenters is delineated. Finally, challenges that SSD OEMs must address before successfully engaging the datacenter are revealed. This paper explores the opportunity for integrating Solid State Drives (SSDs...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Defragging: Merits?
Forum It is pointless on a Solid State Drive (SSD) as with no moving parts it's access time is so quick it is considered neglegible. I used some 3rd party apps that took about 20-30mins each time but to be honest I rarely defrag since NTFS and will stop...
[June 26, 2008, 17:06]
Service Selection Gateway
White Papers SSG works in conjunction with the Cisco Service Selection Dashboard (SSD) or its successor product, the Cisco Subscriber Edge Services Manager (SESM). Together with the SESM or SSD, SSG provides subscriber authentication, service selection, and...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Ubuntu 7.10 Gibbon Swings On The Asus Eee
Blog Comment I have both Xandros and Kubuntu running, I shrank the first partition on the ssd, saved with partimage the two partitions on which Xandros is installed, created a third 80MB boot partition for Ubuntu on the ssd and put the / partition for Ubuntu...
[November 11, 2007, 22:06]
Ubuntu 7.10 Gibbon Swings On The Asus Eee
Blog It's one of the hottest things in the office this year: the combination of the insanely low price tag, the perfectly functional specification (512MB RAM, 4GB internal flash SSD, wi-fi, real keyboard, VGA display) and its extreme portability makes...
[October 26, 2007, 16:10]
Intel 'hacker' Sentence Expunged
News Schwartz was arrested in 1993 after using a program called "Crack" to find out the passwords of various former colleagues in the Intel Supercomputer Systems Division (SSD). Schwartz had left SSD under a cloud, and told the court he decided to crack...
[March 2, 2007, 15:59]
Intel To Launch High-capacity Solid-state Drives
News Samsung plans to bring out a 128GB SSD later this year. Winslow also suggested that SSD prices, which are currently very high when compared with traditional hard drives, would soon dramatically drop. Intel is planning to launch high-speed, high...
[March 13, 2008, 12:27]
