Hard Drives White Papers

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Embedded SSD Flash Management
sponsored by sTec | HGST
WHITE PAPER: This white paper will explore NAND flash technology and its inherent problems, and explain how proper flash management algorithms can address these issues and transform NAND flash into a reliable media with a long lifespan.
Posted: 08 Oct 2013 | Published: 03 Jan 2013

sTec | HGST

Improving the mobile experience through solid state drive
sponsored by Intel Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Intel IT is evaluating solid-state drive (SSD) technology to better understand the benefits to users and the impacts on the enterprise. We have initiated a proof of concept (PoC) study that includes extensive benchmark testing as well as deployment of notebooks with SSDs to the Intel workforce.
Posted: 27 May 2009 | Published: 05 Jan 2009

Intel Corporation

The New Storage Economics With Flash
sponsored by DellEMC and Intel®
WHITE PAPER: This white paper showcases an innovative flash-optimized storage strategy that provides performance at the capacity and price of a rotating disk, making flash storage affordable and accessible to a broader segment of the market.
Posted: 13 Nov 2013 | Published: 30 Sep 2013

DellEMC and Intel®

Enterprise Use Cases for Solid State Storage/Flash Memory
sponsored by DellEMC and Intel®
WHITE PAPER: In this SSG report, you will gain insight into the use cases where solid state storage has enormous performance advantages that can produce reduced costs due to performance or enable applications that have been near to impossible using HSS technology.
Posted: 26 Dec 2013 | Published: 17 Sep 2013

DellEMC and Intel®

Fidelity Information Services and IBM Storwize V7000 with IBM System Storage Easy Tier
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This paper describes the benchmark results of a leading server/storage configuration. Obtain detailed information on the unique configuration that was tested as well as the specific architectural components.
Posted: 14 Nov 2013 | Published: 31 Mar 2012

IBM

Unleashing Application Performance with Solid-State Drives and Sun Servers
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This white paper, intended for executives and managers, describes how Oracle's Sun servers—equipped with flash-enabled solid-state drives (SSDs)—offer dramatic improvements to high-performance computing (HPC), Web 2.0, and datacenter application performance.
Posted: 01 Oct 2010 | Published: 03 May 2010

Oracle Corporation

Deploying Flash in the Enterprise
sponsored by NetApp
WHITE PAPER: This white paper carefully analyzes the costs of several different flash solutions. In order to help you choose the best platform to address your unique storage challenges and performance needs.
Posted: 08 May 2013 | Published: 30 Apr 2013

NetApp

Mixed All-Flash Array Delivers Safer High Performance
sponsored by Dell India
WHITE PAPER: Access this lab report to uncover the key features of Dell Compellent which separates it from similar technologies, implementation recommendations and much more.
Posted: 25 Feb 2014 | Published: 08 Aug 2013

Dell India

IBM SAN Volume Controller and IBM FlashSystem 820: Best Practices and Performance Capabilities
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This paper documents best practice configurations for integrating flash with a block storage virtualization appliance. It also details the potential performance gains that such systems can provide and information about your options for cache usage and real-time compression.
Posted: 26 Sep 2013 | Published: 24 Jul 2013

IBM

Unlocking the Power of Flash with the MCx- Enabled Next- Generation VNX
sponsored by EMC & Arrow
WHITE PAPER: This resource examines the reasons that organizations are moving from HDDs to higher-performance media and adopting MCx technology to manage the higher I/O intensity. It also examines the evolution of storage controllers, from traditional HDD controllers to "hybrid array"controllers capable of optimizing flash media and multi-core CPUs.
Posted: 02 Apr 2014 | Published: 30 Aug 2013

EMC & Arrow