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Podcast 1: Advantages of SSDs for Enterprise Workloads (12MB - 11 minutes)
Interview with Pat Wilkison, STEC
Thursday, Aug 7, 2008 12:47 PM

Overview:

• Solid State Drives far surpass hard disks in enterprise IO performance and latency.
• You can never improve latency with hard disk drives as you can with SSDs.
• Power efficiency - you can save up to 98% of energy by moving to SSDs.
• SSDs’ advantages hold up in mixed systems with hard disk drives.
• SSDs address the technologies with the same widely-used, standardized interfaces as hard disk drives use. This makes drop-and-replace easy.
• SSDs allow unlimited writes with no reads.

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Podcast 2: Three Summit sessions feature NAND architecture and its use in mobile devices
(5.6 MB - 6 minutes):

Three Summit sessions feature NAND architecture and its use in mobile devices:

• Forum on Laptop Design - designs for “netbooks,” opportunity to expand the laptop market for customers in both developing countries and developed countries
• Flash in Embedded Systems - SSDs’ usefulness from the perspective of design engineers, design innovation, opportunity to rethink the design, new applications
• Designing Flash-based Products - ONFI standards, factory preprogramming, Non-volatile Memory Host Controller Interface (NVMHCI) protocol

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Podcast 3: Selecting a New Technology (4.4MB - 5 minutes)

Sessions that can help in choosing flash-based technologies

• Flash memory in embedded systems
• Flash in enterprise storage systems
• Solid state drives
• Flash performance
• Designing flash-based products
• New approaches for non-volatile applications
• Security

Plus a list of the 7 keynotes

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