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Subject: Re: Zeus IOPS
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On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 10:27 +0300, Mindaugas Riauba wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> >>> Anybody on the list have any experience with these drives?  They get
> >>> good numbers but I can't find diddly on them on the internet for the
> >>> last year or so.
> >>>
> >>> http://www.stec-inc.com/product/zeusiops.php
> 
>   Most of the storage vendors (I have confirmation from EMC and HP)
> use those in their SAN boxes. I believe that is because they are the
> only SLC SSD makers that have supercapacitors on the SSD drive which
> allows them to run with write cache enabled. As a side effect - they
> are insanely expensive. :)

Texas Memory Systems also have these.
-- 
Brad Nicholson  416-673-4106
Database Administrator, Afilias Canada Corp.