When writing multithreaded programs that work with sockets, a common pattern is to have two threads per socket—one thread writes the data to the socket, another one reads the data. Obviously, the socket library used for this should be threadsafe to start with and support a read from a socket in one thread and a [...]

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Intel is giddy with delight to be shipping its new high-performance solid state drive (SSD) into the server, workstation and storage markets. So are its customers, who came to testify at its launch Wednesday.
Great things are expected of the X-25E Extreme SATA Solid-State Drive, available immediately in 32GB capacities with 64GB due in Q1.
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As NAND flash prices continue to plummet, vendors are piling into the solid-state disk (SSD) market in hopes that SSDs will supplement or even replace hard-disk drives in computers. But analysts differ on how, when, and where SSDs will catch on in mainstream computers.
SSDs consist of NAND flash chips packaged with a controller designed to [...]

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Fusion-io, a leading provider of solid state technology and high-performance I/O solutions, unveiled its first consumer product, the ioXtreme, at the E for All conference and expo. The ioXtreme brings high-end PC users 80 GB of PCI-Express-based, high-performance, solid state storage that was designed for the world’s fastest supercomputers.
“Imagine working on complex 3-D graphics, unzipping [...]

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Toshiba Corp. has enhanced its line up of NAND-flash-based solid state drives (SSD) with the addition of a 256-Gbyte SSD and the launch of small-sized flash modules for netbook computers, ultra-mobile PCs (UMPCs) and other mobile and peripheral applications.
The company also added small size 8-Gbyte, 16-Gbyte and 32-Gbyte flash modules for netbooks to enhanced line-up. [...]

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Should you use flash solid state drive (SSD) storage as a pretend hard disk drive or as a cache attached to a server’s main bus?
These are two approaches that have emerged about using flash in large scale storage applications. EMC, with the help of STEC, says to use drop-in Fibre-Channel-attached SSDs, which function like very, [...]

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Seeking to accelerate a new technology in the marketplace, the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) has announced the formation of a new solid-state storage (SSD) group.
The so-called Solid State Storage Initiative (SSSI) includes Intel, Microsoft, Seagate and SanDisk. But missing from the group appears to be NAND flash and SSD vendors Micron, Toshiba and Samsung. [...]

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Super Talent is bulking up its solid-state drive (SSD) family with new, third generation models. The company today announced that its new MasterDrive OX and PX SSDs feature a brand new multi-channel SATA-II controller for increased read/write speeds.
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The Intel X25-M and the X18-M SSDs are available in 80GB capacities, 2.5″ and 1.8″ form factors (respectively) with 160GB versions on the way. Here is an article from AnandTech, which starts description on how SSDs work and reviews Intel X25-M SSD.
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ZDNet News reports that IBM is making a major push on Monday to upgrade computer storage products and services it offers customers struggling to manage mountainous piles of data being created inside their organizations.
The company is announcing more then 30 new or upgraded products or services that are the result of a $2 billion investment [...]

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Solid State Drive technology is set to turn the storage industry on its ear; there is little doubt of this. When you consider the intrinsic benefits of anything built on solid state technology versus anything mechanical, it doesn’t take a degree in physics to understand the obvious advantages. Consider the vacuum tube in [...]

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Engineers and researchers at the IBM Hursley development lab in England and the Almaden Research Center in California have demonstrated groundbreaking performance results that outperform the world’s fastest disk storage solution by over 250%. IBM has demonstrated, for the first time, the game-changing impact solid-state technologies can have on how businesses and individuals manage and [...]

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Storage gurus from IBM Corp. and EMC Corp. spent much of the Labor Day weekend debating the future of flash memory drives in servers and storage systems. In a candid online exchange, the two agreed flash drives will rewrite the rules for system storage, but took significantly different views on how to implement solid state [...]

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Solid-state drives (SSDs) are promising, but the technology may not be ready for prime time in higher-end enterprise or ‘’storage-class” applications, according to an analyst.
For these high-end, ‘’storage-class” applications, NAND-based SSDs could hit the wall. Instead of using NAND, phase-change and resistive memory technology looks more promising in storage devices, said Bob Merritt, an analyst [...]

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IBM has claimed a major breakthrough in flash storage, with a research project that’s delivering data transfer speeds of more than 1 million input/output operations per second, two and a half times faster than the industry’s fastest disk storage.
IBM’s Project Quicksilver, announced Thursday, combines solid-state flash memory with IBM’s storage virtualization technology. “Quicksilver improved [...]

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The battle is heating up in solid-state drives (SSDs). An endless stream of companies are expanding or entering the SSD fray, leaving many to predict a shakeout in the arena.
Intel, Micron, SanDisk, Stec, Toshiba and countless others have recently rolled out new SSDs. On Tuesday (Aug. 27), Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. said that it has [...]

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If you’ve ever used a system with a SSD, you’ll know the appeal. They are expensive, small and not widely available, but that doesn’t mean that the technology or the drives aren’t desirable. Today, Intel is announcing their SSDs. There’s the Intel Extreme SSD X25-E, which is a 2.5″ drive based on SLC NAND flash [...]

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At the Flash Memory Summit, Dean Klein, vice president of memory system development at Micron Technology Inc., provided a glimpse of the past, present and future of the latest hot topic in the industry: solid-state drives (SSDs). Based on NAND flash, SSDs are an emerging technology that is supposed to replace hard drives in systems. [...]

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For some time, suppliers of solid-state drives (SSDs) have been searching for a high-volume market for their products. Notebooks, servers and other systems are among the potential high-volume markets for SSDs, but cost has been a major stumbling block. Hard drives remain cheaper and more reliable, some argue.
However, vendors may have finally found a [...]

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The network file system (NFS) protocol is getting its biggest overhaul in more than a decade, and the results could be profound for end users (see The Future of NFS Arrives). Version 4.1 of NFS, developed by a team of veterans from various storage interests, promises to unlock new performance and security capabilities, particularly for [...]

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