"solid-state drives" news, interviews, and features

News about solid-state drives

• SSD prices plummet again, close in on HDDs

  Prices dropped by 12 per cent in just the last quarter alone

• SSDs requiring data recovery on the rise: Kroll Ontrack

  IT consultancy finds also finds that not enough people are not using the Cloud to back-up data

• SSDs may give you more bang for your DRAM

  An IBM executive expects the flash storage parts to also work in conjunction with DRAM

• Micron ships its first enterprise-class SSD

  The P300 can handle 1.9TB of throughput a day for five years

• OCZ releases updated 1.8-in SSD line for netbooks, tablets

  New Vertex 2 drives have the same performance as their 2.5-in predecessors

• Israeli start-up claims huge boost to SSD reliability

  Higher-endurance NAND will make SSDs more attractive for data center use

Interviews about solid-state drives

• Q&A: Why Apple's co-founder is hot on solid state storage

  Steve Wozniak joins a storage start-up and sees similarities to his early Apple days

Features about solid-state drives

• Free utility works to overcome SSD slowness

  Data-buffering driver/utility FlashFire can be a godsend for owners of computers with slow SSDs.

• Seagate's pulsar drives bring SSD to enterprise primetime

  Seagate is the first of the established enterprise storage vendors to enter the SSD market with its new Pulsar SSD drives.

• Despite the cost, SSDs are great value

  Price is only one factor when comparing solid-state drives to conventional spinning disks

• Four considerations for SSD deployment

  Consider cost-performance ratio when deploying solid-state drives

• Automated tiering key to getting value from SSDs

  Vendors are developing software to place high-demand data in fast flash storage

• SNW highlights SSDs, more

  Manufacturers focus on performance and IOPS over capacity