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 [...]
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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