Surprise, surprise… A little war of words is brewing over solid-state drives (SSDs) and their market ascendancy in 2012. SanDisk, a company best known for making memory cards — the kind that goes in cameras and other gadgets — says that its “small form-factor client SSD” business is going gangbusters. Moreover, this is the year that [...]
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The price per gigabyte ratio keeps swinging in favor of improved solid-state drive (SSD) adoption, but not faster than prices keep tumbling on traditional hard drives. Apart from high-performance servers, storage arrays, a smattering of portables, and of course, PC enthusiasts that spend top dollar for the fastest components, SSDs are still having a tough [...]
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Demo: How CloudRack Optimizes Energy Use – Data Center Knowledge The CloudRack C2 employs cabinet-level power distribution technology and fans in the rear of the enclosure, enabling server trays that contain no fans or power supplies. In this video from…
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That’s right, 2TB. See, that’s why SSDs have a bit of a ways to go before they can challenge traditional disk drives. But that too appears to be changing. HotHardware put Western Digital’s mammoth Caviar Green through its paces to…
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