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manufacturers and customers in order to solve legacy product problems. GD
California currently maintains over 3,000 different products, including STD,
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Complete Systems. GD California's promise is "Never To Discontinue A
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How
Do Solid State Disks Make Economic Sense?
When Some 3.5" Drives Cost
$20,000 or More? |
If
your application is speeding up an enterprise server with thousands or tens of
thousands of networked users then it's a mistake to think of the SSD as
replacing storage. In fact the SSD is replacing servers and software licenses.
SSDs can be used either to speed up the response time of existing applications
as an alternative to buying more servers, or to reduce the number of servers and
software licenses deployed. The economics can be compellingly in favor of an SSD
deployment and are discussed in our many
SSD case study
articles.
Another server use for SSDs is to prolong the life of
server architectures which have been end-of-lifed such as HP's Alpha. The SSD
can work like a processor speedup and buy the owners more years of useful life
while they evaluate viable alternatives as described in the article -
Out of the
Alpha Frying Pan into the Sun Fire?
For server architectures like
SPARC which have long been lagging behind the GHz clock rate of competing
architectures, a solid state disk can produce typically double or treble
applications performance and produce the same server capability as using 3GHz
SPARC chips without the 3 year wait for new processor technology. This is one of
the reasons why Sun
Should Acquire a Solid State Disk Maker. Sun's control of the Solaris OS
also means it could ship Solaris x86 servers with twice the performance of Linux
on Opteron based servers too.
...from -
the Solid State
Disks Buyers Guide | |
