[Info-vax] OT: Steve Wozniak

[Arne Vajhøj]

Neil Rieck wrote:
> I, along with 700 others, just had breakfast with Steve Wozniac at a
> conference sponsored by Waterloo Ontario companies like RIM, Dalsa and
> Open Text.
> http://www.communitech.ca/en/
> 
> Boy, I thought I was an optimist but this guy's optimism is
> overflowing and infectious. Why would you OpenVMS people care about
> this? The Woz now works for a company called "fusion i/o"
> http://www.fusionio.com/
> and he mentioned that big companies, like HP and IBM, are using
> "fusion i/o" solid-state storage technology to set new TPC transaction
> records while beating fiber-connected storage arrays by 10 times or
> more (and costing a whole lot less)
> 
> http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9100218/HP_adding_solid_state_memory_to_its_servers
> 
> In their view, multi-core CPU processors will only get faster which
> means that magnetic storage will continue to starve them of data. They
> feel that solid-state storage will become the primary system memory
> while hard disks will be relegated to doing off-system backups.
> 
> Now let's see if their vision comes to fruition.

SSD is a lot faster than rotating disks. And will undoubtedly
make a TPC benchmark scream.

But SSD is a relative unproven technology regarding reliability.

The first generations of SSD (the first generations of the
technology that is used for SSD today - SSD is a very old
concept) were not very reliable for many writes.

Intel claims that their newest SSD's are as reliable as
server disks.

I think a lot of system managers will want to get some
practical experience before putting the companys
core systems on SSD.

Arne