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• SSDs may give you more bang for your DRAM

  By Stephen Lawson | 18 August, 2010 09:51

  Device and storage vendors are gradually embracing flash SSDs (solid-state disks) as a complement to spinning disk drives, but one executive at this week's Flash Memory Summit sees great potential in turning flash "upside down," as a lower tier of cache behind DRAM.

• Micron ships its first enterprise-class SSD

  By Lucas Mearian | 12 August, 2010 20:16

  Micron Technology Inc. today said it is shipping what it calls the fastest enterprise-class solid-state drive (SSD) on the market.

• Seagate Momentus XT pairs SSD, HDD with impressive results

  By Brennon Slattery | 25 May, 2010 02:55

  Seagate may have delayed the funeral of traditional hard drives with the release of the Momentus XT, a marriage of a hard-disk drive (HDD) and a solid-state drive (SSD). The hybrid delivers impressive performance at a low price. Here's a rundown of the Momentus TX.

• Seagate hybrid drive delivers SSD performance at HDD price

  By Lucas Mearian | 25 May, 2010 02:33

  After failing to gain market traction with its first iteration of hybrid drives three years ago, Seagate today announced a new hard-disk and solid-state combination drive with as much as 500GB of capacity, but with a 250GB model starting at $113.

• Enterprise SSDs to soar through 2015

  By Lucas Mearian | 29 April, 2010 02:49

  A new research report predicts that use of solid state drives (SSD) in enterprise servers and storage systems will explode over the next five years, increasing in numbers by 50 times.

• Flash can eliminate imbalance between server and storage performance

  By Jon Brodkin | 15 October, 2009 08:12

  The rise of flash memory in the enterprise data center will help eliminate a fundamental imbalance between the performance of servers and storage, Sun storage chief John Fowler told attendees at Storage Networking World.