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Slidecast: Texas Memory Systems Steps Up with 10-Year RAID SSDs

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-A9T_gTHHRc In this slidecast, Jamon Bowen and Erik Eyberg from Texas Memory Systems discuss their new SSD storage solutions. Using eMLC in a RAID configuration, the new RamSam-810 product has lifetime rated at 10 years of continuous writing at 600 MB/s. Download the MP3 * Subscribe on iTunes * Subscribe on other podcast players

Intel Unveils Tiny SSDs

By Rik Myslewski in San Francisco • Get more from this author Intel announced on Wednesday a new line of tiny solid-state drives, the SSD 310 series, that have performance specs comparable to those of their 2.5-inch X-25 and 1.8-inch X-18 SSD brethren – and at least one manufacturer is already on board to put […]

Dealing with performance degradation in SSDs

Herman Mehling at EnterpriseStorageForum.com writes this week about one of the big challenges SSD faces in IO-intensive (especially write-intensive) environments: performance degradation over time. Solid state drives (SSD) are known for performance that is many times that of hard disk drives (HDDs), but what’s not so well known is that SSD performance tends to degrade […]

Intel stops shipping SSDs following discovery of data loss

EnterpriseStorageForum.com reported on Monday that Intel has stopped shipping its new solid state storage devices, which have been on the market for less than a month. The latest crop of flash-based SSDs have been the subject of a lot of discussion in HPC, but not too much implementation Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) has halted shipments of […]

IBM drops flash SSDs onto POWER lineup

Late last week IBM announced it is adding flash-based SSDs to it POWER line of servers; IBM’s System x and BladeCenter servers and System Storage DS8000 line got their SSD injection some time ago. The company joins many other hardware OEMs taking this step. IBM’s release doesn’t have many details, but Timothy Prickett Morgan at […]

Today's flash-based SSDs and their potential in HPC

I wrote a feature last week for HPCwire on solid state drives. I had two goals: first, to provide a little background for those wondering exactly what an SSD is and just why everyone is talking about them now. My second goal was to talk a little about the potential — and problems — of […]

Dell Unveils Xeon 6 Servers, New Storage Appliances and Software for HPC-AI

Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) today made announcements across its data center server, storage and data protection portfolios. Here’s a rundown of the new offerings: Dell PowerEdge R470, R570, R670 and R770 ….

HighPoint Announces UBM/VPP Support for PCIe Gen5 and 2nd-Gen Gen4 NVMe Adapter Families

March 6, 2025 — HighPoint Technologies announced the availability of customizable UBM (Universal Backplane Management)/VPP (Virtual Presence and Power) firmware packages for its PCIe Gen5 and 2nd-Gen PCIe Gen4 NVMe adapter families. The company said this update ensures integration and compatibility with enterprise-grade storage server environments, providing enhanced flexibility and reliability for data-centric applications. The […]

VDURA Launches All-Flash NVMe V5000 for AI Factories and GPU Clouds

MILPITAS, CA – March 4, 2025 – VDURA, an AI and high-performance computing data infrastructure company, today announced the launch of its V5000 All-Flash Appliance, engineered to address the escalating demands as AI pipelines and generative AI models move into production. Built on the VDURA V11 data platform, the system delivers GPU-saturating throughput while ensuring the […]

MiTAC Computing Unveils AI/HPC Servers at SC24

Atlanta– SC24 – Nov 19, 2024 – MiTAC Computing Technology Corporation, a server platform design manufacturer and a subsidiary of MiTAC Holdings (TSE:3706), has unveilws its new server lineup at SC24 (booth #2543). MiTAC Computing’s servers integrate the latest AMD EPYC 9005 Series CPUs, AMD Instinct MI325X GPU accelerators, Intel Xeon 6 processors, and professional […]