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hando
May 04, 2013Aspirant
Readynas OS 6 Massive Performance Decrease
Hi, I just updated my Readynas Ultra 4 to OS 6, and am now experiencing a huge performance difference. Previously, I could read at around 110MB/s constantly over a gigabit connection. Now, I barely ...
StephenB
May 29, 2013Guru - Experienced User
Interesting question.
ihartley wrote: ...one wonders if spin tech is dead...
http://www.trefis.com/stock/stx/article ... 2013-02-28 claims that the hard drive industry will shrink by by $4 billion this year (over 10%). That's due to the drop off in PC sales and the falling prices of SSD.
I don't think that is stoppable myself. Though it isn't clear when that trend starts to affect network storage. I'm thinking we are still quite a way from affordable 4-5 TB SSD.
I am not convinced that RAID makes a lot of sense for SSD - they fail in different ways from traditional disks, and my guess is that the array is even more likely to see near-simultaneous failures.
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