Throwing a Defragmentation Grenade

Throwing a Defragmentation Grenade

All SSD-enabled storage devices are fast. Real fast. But are they as fast as advertised? Not likely. Not in a live environment.

But, they're probably fast enough ... or are they?

While at a conference in Toronto several years ago, I had the opportunity to sit down with renowned storage analyst, Marc Staimer. It was great geek talk’ about emerging storage technologies. I remember him talking about all-flash arrays (AFA) and how they were running north of 100,000 IOpS. Well north.

I told him I don’t know of any of TriAxis' customers that would require even half of that. He advised me to... (continue to post)

Ramadhan Abdul

Business Development Manager @ Worldpronet | Master's in Business Management

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