OCZ RevoDrive Hybrid

OCZ  announced hybrid hard disk drive containing  100Gb SSD drive and 1Tb regular hard disk drive. Disk is represented as a PCI-e extension card.  Such storage division will allow frequent files store on SSD disk while less frequent files tore on large capacity hard drive.

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SSD free space manager

Recently found very nice soft created by French programmers - SSD Boost Manager. Actually it helps you move whole programs from Hard drive to SSD and vice versa. All you need is to specify which folder you want to move forth and back so creating profile. After that, all you have to do is click on profile to move to or from SSD.

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Intel SSD 710 and 720

Intel  710 SSD (code name:  Lyndoville) will use MLC NAND technology. SSD disks will be supplied with 64Mb cache. Data interface - SATA 6Gb/s. Nice add-on is hardware encryption using 128bit key. Intel claims these disks will work at least 2 million hours.
Read performance expected 270 Mb/s and write performance 210 Mb/s. IOPS 36000.

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IBM PCM. Are SSD becoming history?

IBM recently anounced that they have successfully developed the multi-bit chips by doubling the density of a chip and reducing errors when reading data.
The chips can store data 100x faster than existing NAND flash technology (what for SSD is about 250Mb/s). They also have high storage capacities and the power to retain data even when the power supply is cut off.
Unlike flash, these chips are very durable. They can endure at least 10 million write cycles, compared to current 30'000 up to 50'000 for SSD.
IBM plans to license the technology and expects the chips to be widely available by 2016.

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Hard disk drives RMA statistics

There are numerous criteria how to choose best hard disk drive. Performance benchmarking is one of them, prices comparison and warranty goes next. HDD manufacturer usually provide 1 to 3 or even more years of warranty.  Even if hard drive will be replaced, data stored on them will be lost irreversibly.  And here is another useful statistics – RMA statistics or how often hardware is returned to RMA service because of defect.

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Hard disk manufacturers who left industry or backrupted

The dark side of free market is concurrency what forces some companies to be sold or banckrupt. The same happens in storage industry. That means after a couple of years you can find hard disk drive without any information only because it is not produced any more and company did it is left business.

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SSD MLC vs SLC

SLC devices store 1 bit per flash cell, MLC devices store 2 bits per cell. The reason MLC drives are cheaper is because a chip half the size (and cost) can store the same amount of data. 
Single-level cell (SLC) SSD drives are faster and more reliable.
Multi-level cell (MLC) SSD drives are slower, cheaper but less reliable.

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