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Skriven 2007-04-24 21:31:36 av Rich Gauszka (1:379/45)
Ärende:   512GB SSD
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From: "Rich Gauszka" <gauszka@dontspamhotmail.com>


Unfortunately it looks like we'll have to wait till 2012 to get these prices
even below $2 a GB.

http://biz.yahoo.com/pz/070418/117663.html

TEC, Inc. today announced an extension to its Zeus-IOPS Solid State Drive (SSD)
family with the addition of 512GB and 256GB versions offering enterprise
systems the performance equivalent of up to 200 hard drives in just one drive.
The company also announced that an important agreement has been put in place
with a worldwide leader of on-demand and real-time media delivery technology
systems, wherein the Zeus-IOPS SSD was thoroughly analyzed and successfully
deployed. This important customer views STEC's SSD technology as a vital means
to enabling video-on-demand services at speeds that were unattainable using
traditional rotating hard drive solutions. STEC will showcase the Flash-based
Zeus-IOPS Solid State Hard Drives at Storage Networking World, April 16-19,
2007 at the Manchester Grand Hyatt in San Diego, CA (Booth PP3).

...
High Performance at a Competitive Cost

While hard drive access times are measured in milliseconds, access times for
Zeus-IOPS are in microseconds, enabling a significant increase in server
processor utilization. Additionally, Zeus-IOPS SSDs are more than 200 times
faster at random transactional performance than a 15K RPM enterprise hard disk
drive, providing lower cost per transaction and enabling higher performing
systems with far less hardware costs.

For comparable performance, a 200 hard drive enterprise system would cost two
to three times more than a Zeus-IOPS system due to additional up-front hardware
and reoccurring maintenance, power and cooling costs.

``The market has clearly embraced our Zeus-IOPS product line,'' said Steve
Garceau, senior manager, SSD marketing at STEC. ``We were the first to
demonstrate such high levels of performance and customers indicated they wanted
even higher capacities than our initial capacity points. STEC responded by
extending the product line and is dedicated to solving key challenges for our
customers in the fastest time possible.''

STEC believes that solid-state Flash drives with high-IOPS performance will
address the growing needs of the enterprise-class drive market. With NAND Flash
prices declining on a continued rapid pace, prices for FC, SAS and SATAII-based
SSDs are expected to drop below $2 per GB by 2012 which implies 512GB of
high-performance storage for less than $1,000. Based upon these capacity and
pricing dynamics, STEC expects that the high-IOPS SSD will make up a
significant percentage of the $5 billion high-performance hard-drive market.
This will make the comparative performance gains of SSD over HDD even more
compelling.

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