This is an article I wrote a while ago (late 2009), a while after EMC introduced Enterprise Flash Drives (EFD’s). Although more tooling is available these days to automate the tiering of storage, the basic concepts are still very valid,…
Innovation with Flash Drives – part 2
Energy Efficiency of Flash Here is a comparison of power consumption of various current drive types: This picture shows the amount of energy to store 1 Terabyte of information. As this would only require one 1-Terabyte SATA drive, this is…
Innovation with Flash Drives – part 1
This is an article I wrote a while ago (mid 2009), a while after EMC introduced Enterprise Flash Drives (EFD’s) and albeit a bit outdated, it is a valid introduction to Enterprise Flash Drive technology. It also explains the differences…
Welcome
Wow I am feeling a bit excited – pushing the button “visible to everyone” on the blog admin area. Although I have written some articles, emails and internal blog post for EMC before, this is the first time I go…