Suppose I told you that the local car dealership was selling a car that offered double the gas mileage of standard models (or double the top speed for you daredevils). You’d probably say something like “Sure, but what is it going to cost me?” Suppose I told you that the models were identical, but the [...]
There has been quite a buzz in the industry lately about NAND flash products that are capable of storing more than two bits per cell, so I wanted to just take a minute and provide our perspective. Simply put–what ultimately matters is having the lowest cost-per-bit solution in volume production at a given moment in [...]
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 [...]
Hey guys. The MAST folks asked me to get the blog up to speed on a very exciting announcement—our Enterprise NAND. In a nutshell, Enterprise NAND is a very high endurance SLC NAND device. It has a write/erase cycle endurance of 1 million cycles. Seriously cool–that’s 10X standard NAND. So, what does it mean? Well, [...]
High Speed NAND, ONFI 2.0 and our PCI-e Demo Wow–there’s a been a lot of buzz about our recent PCI-e demonstration so I thought I’d take a minute and talk a little about the NAND we use, as it illustrates how NAND flash, managed to run at its optimum performance, can deliver incredible performance to [...]
We’re pretty passionate around here about engineering SSDs that get the highest performance possible. Part of that engineering effort is within the devices themselves—ensuring that our SSDs live up to the potential that our NAND flash offers. That said, there are many variables outside of the SSD that impact performance—like the operating system or [...]
This is exciting stuff. I took some time–and a handy-dandy flipcam–on my recent trip out to the MAST Center to film Joe Jeddeloh’s demonstration of our enterprise PCI-e prototype. It’s really cool to prove (on hardware) what was thought-to-be-possible on paper. Come on into the lab and see the kind of IOP/s we’re hitting with [...]
So Micron is a co-chair on the task group within JEDEC that’s working to better define SSD standards. We work with others in the industry to define the future standards that will apply to SSD products with the goal of defining a shared language for building, testing, and measuring solid state storage products. So because [...]
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