AMD gets Western Digital Memory Extension tech for EPYC Optane battle
AMD has announced it’s using Western Digital’s Memory Extension technology to provide servers with greater effective memory capacity and so take on Optane DRAM extension technology.
The Ultrastar DC ME200...
Samsung’s Z-NAND is okay Optane competitor
With just three times longer latency Samsung’s 983 ZET Z-NAND SSD is a fair spec sheet competitor to Optane SSDs, beating it on most IO measures.
The 983 ZET uses...
MLC DRAM makes fully autonomous vehicle technology achievable
Dateline: April 1, 2019. Researchers at a secret Google facility have implemented multi-level cell DRAM, demonstrating 2 bits/cell (MLC) with a roadmap to 3 and 4 bits/cell, equivalent to...
A potted history of all-flash arrays
Fourteen years ago Violin Memory began life as an all-flash array vendor, aiming to kick slower-performing disk drive arrays up their laggardly disk latency butt. Since then 18 startups...
Vexata dredges new channels as storm clouds gather
Vexata, the extreme high-performance storage array startup, has laid off several staff and imposed pay cuts, according to industry sources. The company declined to comment on pay or confirm...
SoftIron builds out storage line for Ceph-alitics
SoftIron has announced three Ceph-based storage systems - an upgraded performance storage node, an enhanced management system and a front-end access or storage router box
Ceph is free source storage...
Zoned SSDs live fast, die old, Western Digital claims
Western Digital is developing zoned SSDs that can be managed by host systems to speed data access and prolong the life of the drives.
This could make short-life...
Fujitsu Eternus array shatters SPC-1 storage benchmark
Fujitsu has set the new top score for the Storage Performance Council SPC-1 benchmark, scoring 10,001,522 IOPS with its ETERNUS DX8900 S4 array.
In SPC-1 benchmark terms this is the...
Falling NAND prices to drive NVMe SSD uptake, say industry watchers
The great NAND flash price slump will accelerate the uptake of SSD storage, industry sources have predicted, with PCIe/NVMe SSDs possibly accounting for half of the market by the...
UC San Diego: Optane is great but…different
Intel’s Optane DC Persistent Memory DIMM can make key storage applications 17 times faster but systems builders must navigate ‘complex performance characteristics’ to get the best out of the...
Samsung preps third-gen 10nm DDR4 DRAM
Samsung Electronics has developed a third generation of 10-nanometer-class DDR4 memory parts for high performance applications. The Korean chipmaker says this will enable it to ramp up production to...
Micron blames weaker DRAM and NAND Flash demand for Q2 revenue fall
Micron posted Q2 FY2019 revenues of $5.84bn, a whopping fall compared with $7.35bn for the same period last year. This is also down on the $7.91bn for the last...