There are 3 ways to integrate flash in your customers’ solutions today
Option 3: Build your own hybrid solutions
Today hybrid HDD-SSD flash drives are on the market for notebook applications. Future versions are in the works for other applications.
While the world waits, system builders can add the value themselves by combining flash and disk drives in their solutions. In particular, business applications can benefit from flash and disk tiers within a server or storage system. It’s not that difficult, now that SSDs that look just like disks to your OS are generally available. Mark Ferelli at InfoStor wrote on this a while ago.
Just a little flash goes a long way to juice your system’s performance, without adding exhorbitant costs. Not to mention adding some serious differentiation for the right customer.
Anybody out there doing this today? What’s your application?
Using flash storage today, part 2
Using flash storage today, part 1
Hmm … I wouldn’t go so far as to say SSD’s are juicing my system performance, but I do employ a smaller Flash drive for my media server. It’s just big enough to hold an OS and a swap file, which is all it really needs. The media itself is stored on a nice 3 TB NAS in the closet 🙂
Sounds like a practical hybid solution to me. What’s the next step for flash for you?