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• New Fusion ioDrive2 and ioDrive2 Duo

  Fusion-iO just announced the new ioDrive2 and ioDrive2 Duo on Oct 2011 (at some conference of no importance). The MLC models will be available late November and the SLC models afterwards. See the Fusion-iO press release for more info. Below are the Fusion-IO Read More... Posted Tuesday, October 4, 2011 7:06 PM by jchang | 8 Comments Filed under: Hardware, SSD

• Consumer SSDs with SQL Server

  Over the last two years, I have stood up several proof-of-concept (POC) database server systems with consumer grade SSD storage at cost $2-4K per TB. Of course production servers are on enterprise class SSD, Fusion-IO and others, typically $25K+ per TB. Read More... Posted Saturday, September 17, 2011 12:21 AM by jchang | 9 Comments Filed under: Performance, Storage, SSD

• Solid-State Storage

  After years of anticipation and false starts, the SSD is finally ready to take a feature role in database server storage. There were false starts because NAND flash is very different from hard disks and cannot be simply dropped into a storage device and Read More... Posted Monday, October 25, 2010 12:19 PM by jchang | 8 Comments Filed under: Storage, SSD

• Solid State Drive versus Memory, TPC-H Nehalem

  A recently published TPC-H benchmark result, along with previously published results provide some insight into to the relative impact of SSD to disk drives, and SSD versus system memory. The TPC-H configurations are shown below. All results are at SF Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 12, 2009 1:06 AM by jchang | 9 Comments Filed under: Performance, Storage, SSD

• Why have we not seen TPC-C and TPC-E benchmarks using SSD storage?

  Dell recently published a TPC-H report for the PowerEdge T610, 2 x Xeon 5570, with 4 FusionIO 80GB SSD storage devices at 100GB scale factor. So why have we not seen TPC-C or TPC-E OLTP benchmark results published? Now it is much more feasible to run Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 1, 2009 1:48 PM by jchang | 8 Comments Filed under: Performance, Hardware, SSD