4 more questions about RAID
Longtime reader Jim ` asked me a few more worthwhile questions while I was procrastinating working on yesterday’s post about RAID. Let’s go to Q&A format. Q: Does the choice of file system...
View ArticleState of the SSD, 1Q 2011
It’s no secret that I loves me some SSDs. And 2011 looks to be a good year for SSDs. Anandtech has a preview of what promises to be the fastest available drive on the market, once it’s released. It may...
View ArticleIntel and the SSD, 2011
I saw and heard a couple of interesting bits about Intel and SSDs today. First is that Intel’s new 510 series SSDs are using a Marvell controller, rather than something of Intel’s own design. I’ve seen...
View ArticleApple-Intel ARM partnership makes sense
Rumor is that Apple is shopping around for a new manufacturer for the SoCs that power its mobile devices. And that Intel is interested in the business. I think it makes a ton of sense. First, this...
View ArticleThe mainstream places a bet on SSDs
I just saw that LSI Corporation bought Sandforce, maker of high-performance SSD controllers, earlier this week for $400 million. LSI makes a lot of things. I’ve owned a couple of SCSI controllers over...
View ArticleRemember Plextor? Now they’re making SSDs.
Those of you who’ve been around as long as I have–which is probably most of you–will remember Plextor as the maker of the very best SCSI CD-ROM drives back when there was a market for SCSI CD-ROM...
View ArticleWhy Intel can’t quit x86
Here’s a nice perspective on Intel’s non-x86 efforts, and why they failed and x86 marched on, despite its weak points. Kudos for remembering that Intel made ARM chips. Intel got into ARM by accident,...
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