ALL-FLASH STORAGES. A REVIEW

Contains an overview of data storage systems which built entirely from flash drives. Using data from DRAMeXchange analytical company comparison of hard disk drives with solid state drives is made, analysis of flash drives and non-volatile Not AND (NAND) flash memory chips markets is performed. Based on the reports of Gartner and International Data Corporation analytical companies the ratings of vendors of storage systems and, in particular, vendors of solid state arrays are presented. Dell EMC, Hitachi Ltd. and Hewlett Packard Enter-prise companies are among of the three world leaders of vendors of storage systems. PureStorage, Dell EMC and Hewlett Packard Enterprise companies are among of the three world leaders of vendors of solid state arrays. Specific flash storage models which demonstrated the best results Storage Performance Council Benchmark-2 by performance and price-performance are given.

Authors: E. Yu. Belova

Direction: Informatics and Computer Technologies

Keywords: Hard disk drive, solid state drive, flash memory, data storage, solid state array, performance, SPC Benchmark-2

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