Viking: Why Wait for Nonvolatile DRAM?
Viking Technology on Wednesday announced that the company has arranged with SuperMicro to deliver solutions that should solve issues key to flash storage array designers. Supermicro will ship server...
View ArticleWhite Paper: Using Flash as Memory
Today NAND flash is being shoehorned into HDD formats simply because it is persistent – the data doesn’t disappear when the lights go out. This approach fails to take advantage of NAND’s greatest...
View ArticleWhere does NVRAM Fit?
There’s been a lot of interest in NVRAM recently. This technology has been lurking in the background for decades, and suddenly has become very popular. What is NVRAM? Quite simply, it’s DRAM or SRAM...
View ArticleAn NVDIMM Primer (Part 1 of 2)
NVDIMMs are gaining interest lately, so The SSD Guy thought it might be worthwhile to explain both what they are and how NVDIMM nomenclature works. As I was writing it I noticed that the post got...
View ArticleAn NVDIMM Primer (Part 2 of 2)
This post is the second of a two-part SSD Guy series outlining the nonvolatile DIMM or NVDIMM. The first part explained what an NVDIMM is and how they are named. This second part describes the...
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