Posts tagged SSD
For the love of speed
I love IOPS. That’s the hidden must have when deploying VDI. Everyone focuses on the different endpoint clients, but I love IOPS. Why? I’ve written about IOPS before, that is the speed of data flowing in and out of the hard drives in the data center to support the VDI endpoints, and strongly recommend using SSDs instead of standar [...]
Here’s why you need SSDs in you...
Not only are SSD drives super fast, but they are getting faster. One of the lead developers of SSD chipsets is SandForce They have now forged ahead with the SF-2000 series of chipsets. This technology is being refined so fast, and prices falling faster that it’s getting difficult to keep up with the changes.
On balance, SSDs all work bu [...]
In praise of slightly fat Nettop boxe...
So what’s a Nettop? Think of the Netbook PCs, inexpensive $350 low powered 10″ screen PCs that are convenient but not very fast. Take the screen and keyboard away and you’ve got a Nettop, except they have better quality, higher performance components, designed to a price point, but for longevity. Insert a 32 or 64GB SSD dri [...]
Do it yourself NAS and SAN
IT people pursue a career in IT as they have an aptitude towards electronics and experimenting. And while most IT departments buy off the rack equipment that the manufacturer has built for a particular purpose, so want to save money by using the tried and true DIY process. And building your own SAN or NAS device is a project that could save a [...]