Solid State Drive Performance Moves Ever Closer to the Mainstream

BURBANK, CA, May 27 (MARKET WIRE) --
Intel Corporation has just announced the availability of an 80 GB solid
state drive, expressly designed to bring the incredible performance and
stability of solid state drives to the mainstream. The drive has a
2.5-inch form factor, similar to laptop hard disks, makes no noise at all
and generates no heat. It also uses about one one-hundredth of the power
of a normal hard drive, and of course read and write speeds are also many
times faster.

Elsewhere, Sun Microsystems has just introduced a solid state drive hybrid
storage array, which incorporates both solid state drives and hard disks.
This offering incorporates the tried-and-true technology of hard drives
with the far superior efficiency of solid state drives -- obviously a
stepping-stone to full solid state drive storage arrays.

Both of these events portend what is most surely to come: the complete
takeover of storage by solid state drives as a medium. As prices move
downward, adoption will continue going up -- and very soon the entire
computer industry will be operating on a new and vastly superior storage
paradigm.

As solid state drive adoption moves ever higher, there is one other
measure that users will need to take, however: the inclusion of a utility
to optimize free space on each drive. NTFS -- the file system found in
all of Microsoft's current operating systems -- saves files to solid
state drives in such a way that free space is shattered into pieces. This
is because NTFS is designed for saving data onto hard drives, not solid
state drives. As a result, write performance slows dramatically and
within a month can degrade by as much as 80 percent.

Solid state drives also have a limited number of erase-write cycles, and
the breaking up of free space increases the number of such cycles. Hence,
drive life is shortened considerably.

To gain the performance the solid state drives provide, users must employ
a solution that optimizes solid state drive free space. When this is done,
write performance is brought back to a high-speed level and kept there.
Once the solution has been in operation a short time, write-erase activity
also becomes substantially reduced. The life of the drive is lengthened
and performance is maximized.

Solid state drives are moving ever closer to the mainstream. As they do,
users need to ensure that their performance -- a primary reason for their
adoption -- is not hampered in any way.

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