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RAID VS. SLED - Now With SSDs: Page 2 of 2

Twenty years ago academics proposed that a redundant array of the inexpensive drives PCs used could replace the high performance drives that made mainframe DASD farms look like laundromats. The dominance of STEC's ZEUS IOPS in enterprise storage battling it out with Pillar and Dell/Equallogic's whole shelves of lower cost Intel and Samsung SSDs reminds me of the RAID vs SLED battle of the past.
Howard Marks
August 27, 2009

Since the Intel and Samsung drives have a 2.5" form factor, I'm wondering how long it's going to be before someone bundles a Nehalem motherboard, LSI Logic SAS/SATA RAID controller and 36 Intel 25-Es with Falconstor NSS to try to set the land-speed record for 3U storage systems. Maybe I can make a video...

With STEC playing SLED and Pillar and Dell/Equallogic SSD  playing RAID, things could get interesting. Think anyone else will consider an SSD RAID model?  I'm sure STEC as a single source is worrying some vendor somewhere.

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