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Consultant and patent holder Hubbert Smith has held senior product and marketing roles with Toshiba Memory America, Samsung Semiconductor, NetApp, Western Digital and Intel. He is a published author and a past board member and workgroup chair of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), and had a significant role in changing the storage industry with data centre SSDs and Enterprise SATA disk drives.

NVMe v1.4 resolves data centre SSD noisy neighbour problems

Hubbert Smith - November 7, 2019 0

Concerning the mistaken belief that key value databases chew up SSDs

Hubbert Smith - October 18, 2019 0

Ignore drive write messaging… SSDs are more reliable than HDDs, Period.

Hubbert Smith - October 4, 2019 0

Using QLC for cold storage is a fool’s errand

Hubbert Smith - September 27, 2019 0

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