We are deeply saddened to announce that Steve Appleton, Micron Chairman and CEO, passed away this morning in a small plane accident in Boise. He was 51. Our hearts go out to his wife, Dalynn, his children and his family during this tragic time. Steve’s passion and energy left an indelible mark on Micron, the [...]
As mentioned in our post last week, we asked the analysts at UBM TechInsights to write a blog post that goes into more detail on their recognition of the RealSSD C300 with an Insight Award. We are honored to be recognized by such a renowned analysis firm, and are proud of the hard work our [...]
Greetings all—I’m Donpaul Stephens, president of Violin Memory. If you’re not familiar with us, we make memory appliances for applications that demand very high IOP/s or low latency for use in data-center operations. Micron’s Kevin Kilbuck and I were talking the other day and we thought it might be interesting for me to write a [...]
Unlike an SSD that has a measured and graceful life span–with time to coordinate a retirement, HDDs often die with absolutely no warning. And this traumatic event often takes our most valuable information to the grave. Our fifth “Counseling Session” video allows us to lament with poor HDD, as he mourns the nature of his [...]
Due to their sensitivities to heat, movement, and pressure, HDDs need stable, well-controlled operating conditions. They need a certain level of coddling. And, if you offset this delicate balance, prepare for disaster. In our fourth “Counseling Session” parody, we learn more about HDD’s fragile nature and the potential consequences of upsetting his carefully managed state [...]
HDDs crash. We’ve all experienced it. In fact, in the largest study of its kind, Google found that HDDs crash even more often than their manufacturers predict … and once an HDD has demonstrated an error, it’s likely to fail again–soon. In this third installment of our ”Counseling Sessions“ videos, we continue to have a [...]
HDDs are mechanical devices—with moving actuators, spinning platters, and shifting heads. And as such they’re predisposed to consume more power than an SSD … in fact, I guess you could say they were “born” this way. So in this, our second ”Counseling Session“ video, we poke a bit of fun at a really serious challenge [...]
We talk a lot about the things that differentiate solid state storage from traditional spinning platters—be it at the enterprise level or in the laptop right in front of me. Perhaps as a relief to that intense level of focus, we made a series of videos to have some fun with the performance issues in [...]
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