Mark Moshayedi and Patrick Wilkison, STEC

For designers of enterprise systems, ensuring that hardware performance keeps pace with application demands is a mind-boggling exercise. The most troubling performance challenge is storage I/O. Spinning media, while exceptional in scaling areal density, will unfortunately never keep pace with I/O requirements. The most cost-effective way to break through these storage I/O

limitations is by incorporating high-performance SSDs (solid-state drives) into the systems.

While we often read in the press that SSDs will soon banish HDD (hard-disk drive) technology to the realm of tape storage, the fact is that SSD technology has only recently become ready for the enterprise. Not all SSDs are alike, and very few are appropriate for use as primary

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