SSDs: The New King of the Data Center? 172
Nerval's Lobster writes "Flash storage is more common on mobile devices than data-center hardware, but that could soon change. The industry has seen increasing sales of solid-state drives (SSDs) as a replacement for traditional hard drives, according to IHS iSuppli Research. Nearly all of these have been sold for ultrabooks, laptops and other mobile devices that can benefit from a combination of low energy use and high-powered performance. Despite that, businesses have lagged the consumer market in adoption of SSDs, largely due to the format's comparatively small size, high cost and the concerns of datacenter managers about long-term stability and comparatively high failure rates. But that's changing quickly, according to market researchers IDC and Gartner: Datacenter- and enterprise-storage managers are buying SSDs in greater numbers for both server-attached storage and mainstream storage infrastructure, according to studies both research firms published in April. That doesn't mean SSDs will oust hard drives and replace them directly in existing systems, but it does raise a question: are SSDs mature enough (and cheap enough) to support business-sized workloads? Or are they still best suited for laptops and mobile devices?"
Re:20x faster (Score:5, Funny)
"How long is a peace of string"
I have never known string to break a cease-fire.
Re:Silver Bullet (Score:5, Funny)
write wear is a read herring.
Are you sure it's not a reed salmon?
Re:And beyond SSD, the future is PCIe Flash (Score:5, Funny)
They have to say up to. Reads and writes towards the inside of the chip are slower then they are towards the outside of the chip. I don't think anyone makes a constant linear velocity SSD.