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#138 – Storage Predictions for 2020 (Part I)

10 January 2020 by Chris Evans 1 Comment

#138 – Storage Predictions for 2020 (Part I)

This week Chris and Martin are joined by Chris Mellor for what is turning into an annual look at storage technology for the year ahead. We should point out that this is only for enterprise storage and not a forecast on the world in general! We start with a discussion on media. At the macro level, capacities continue to grow for SSDs and HDDs year on year. This trend is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Garbage Collection Tagged With: Chris Mellor, composable, flash, HDD, NAND, SSD

#105 – Introduction to VAST Data (Part I) with Howard Marks (Sponsored)

21 June 2019 by Chris Evans 3 Comments

#105 – Introduction to VAST Data (Part I) with Howard Marks (Sponsored)

This week, Chris and Martin talk to Howard Marks, Chief Storyteller at VAST Data.  You may know Howard as an independent analyst and author for a range of online publications.  Howard recently joined VAST to help explain and promote understanding of their data platform architecture. The VAST Data platform uses three main technologies that have only recently emerged onto the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: All-Flash, Guest Speakers, Sponsored, Storage Hardware Tagged With: 3D-XPoint, NAND, Optane, QLC, VAST Data

#54 – Are we at All-flash and HDD Array Price Parity?

22 June 2018 by Chris Evans 4 Comments

#54 – Are we at All-flash and HDD Array Price Parity?

This week, Chris and Martin discuss the subject of price parity between all-flash and hybrid or HDD-based storage arrays.  From Martin's perspective, he is starting to see vendor pricing getting close to parity and it making more sense to buy all-flash than a spinning media device.  However, what are the issues?  TCO is one - it's not all about array pricing.  Also, flash … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Garbage Collection Tagged With: All-flash, flash, MLC, NAND, shared storage, SLC

#44 – Ultra High Capacity Flash Drives

30 March 2018 by Chris Evans 4 Comments

#44 – Ultra High Capacity Flash Drives

This week, Chris and Martin discuss the availability of super-high capacity or ultra-capacity flash drives.  The conversation comes out of an announcement from Nimbus Data that has produced a 100TB SATA SSD.  This follows up from last year's 50TB drives that were OEMed to Viking and Smart Modular.  You can find some more background at Architecting IT here.  With so much … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Garbage Collection Tagged With: ChrisE, flash, MartinG, NAND, Nimbus Data, SSD

#34 – NAND Shortage? What NAND Shortage! with Jim Handy

19 January 2018 by Chris Evans 6 Comments

#34 – NAND Shortage? What NAND Shortage!  with Jim Handy

In this week's podcast, the team chat again with Jim Handy from Objective Analysis.  Jim is an analyst covering the semiconductor industry and provides some great insight into where pricing is headed in the NAND flash market.  The conversation covers some of the technical challenges the industry faces, as well as the impact from China entering the market.  Finally, the guys … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Guest Speakers Tagged With: flash, Jim Handy, NAND, SSD

Talking NAND Flash With Jim Handy – Part One

6 January 2017 by Chris Evans 3 Comments

Talking NAND Flash With Jim Handy – Part One

The following podcast was recorded with Jim Handy, from Objective Analysis on 12th December 2016.  The discussion is all about NAND Flash, what it is, where it came from and what we can expect in the future.  Martin and Chris talked to Jim for a little over an hour, so we've split the content into two parts. You can reach Jim on Twitter at The SSD Guy, or via his blog(s) at … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Guest Speakers Tagged With: ChrisE, flash, Jim Handy, MartinG, NAND

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