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WD Red NAS SSDs Boost NAS Performance in Home and Work Offices
Our WD Red NAS SATA SSD gives a huge boost to NAS SOHO applications. These drives are designed specifically for caching through tiered data storage. If a low number of writes and non-continuous sustained performance is needed, however, full flash applications are feasible.
January 23, 2020 • 6 min read Data
The NVMe SSD Successor for WD Blue SN500 Has Arrived
For content creators and PC users looking for an all-NVMe solution, the WD Blue SN550 is a powerful option, leveraging technology from our proven NVMe product portfolio in a slim M.2 2280 form factor with boosted internal speeds.
December 17, 2019 • 3 min read Data
SanDisk® Spins Up New Cloud Storage for the Next Era in Cloud Computing
[Blogger’s note: No Hard Disk Drives were harmed during the writing of this blog] Mark Twain once said: “Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.” I am almost certain, but not 100% positive, he was referring to those who still believe the next era in cloud computing […]
May 31, 2015 • 3 min read Data
Speeds, Feeds and Needs – Understanding SSD Endurance
It's simple to think flash is flash, but it's not all created equal. Learn how SSD endurance affects the life expectancy and costs of your enterprise SSD.
January 13, 2015 • 7 min read Data
Flash-Accelerated Apache HBase
In today’s hyper-connected world, there is a significant amount of data being collected, and later analyzed to make business decisions. This explosion of data has led to various technologies that can operate on this “Big-Data”, technologies for Big-Data Analytics. Traditional database systems and data warehouses are being augmented with newer scale-out open-source technologies like Apache […]
November 3, 2014 • 4 min read Data
Faster Hadoop Reads and Writes with SanDisk® SSDs
In my first blog post on the SanDisk® ITBlog, I talked about testing the Terasort benchmark using SanDisk CloudSpeed SSDs within an Apache Hadoop data-analytics environment. The blog and the more detailed technical paper that followed talked about the significant performance and TCO benefits that can be achieved by strategically using SSDs within a Big-Data […]
September 11, 2014 • 4 min read Data
Does Storage break Moore’s Law?
Over the years an exponential gap has grown between the advancements of CPU and memory, and what storage can handle. Hard drive performance is the laggard by simply being too slow.
July 22, 2014 • 5 min read Data