Flash Storage


Intel X25-M SATA SSD Solid State Drive Performance

Intels Flash Memory drive, as in, Intels drive into the flash memory market, started out this month with the release of their X25-M and X25-E SSD’s, and they look impressive. The X25-E is primarily designed for enterprise applications with a lower 75ms read latency, while the 25-M, designed for the consumer and laptop market, has [...]

IBM Quicksilver SSD passes 1 million IO operations per second mark

In the field of SSD enterprise-level flash drives, IBM Research has hit a new benchmark. Based on their own  SAN Volume Controller SVC, and using SSD developed by Fusion-io, their project Quicksilver surpassed the 1 million IOPS threshold. From their press release,
The results were achieved using Flash solid-state technology coupled with IBM’s industry leading, highly [...]