Posts Tagged ‘flash storage’

Stanford Talk on Flash Memory Design

by JCRB on March 15, 2012

Back to school day. Over at Stanford they have a speaker series that has been going on for the last few… decades, called the  Stanford University Department of Electrical Engineering Computer Systems Colloquium, known to many simply as EE380. The list of past speakers is as they say, long and distinguished, and includes such industry [...]


Part 4: SSD’s in Storage Arrays

by JCRB on January 10, 2012

Why did we take disk drives out of servers?  Now we rely on traditional disk array storage and surround it with data center compute.  The industry doubles processing power every 12 to 18 months and Gigabit Ethernet and Infiniband now provide 10 – 40Gig bandwidth with very low latencies.  So we have lots of compute [...]