[Info-vax] OT: Steve Wozniak

[Arne Vajhøj]

mjmahon wrote:
> On Aug 17, 6:35�pm, Arne Vajh�j <a... at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>> 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_...
>>> 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.
> 
> It is unlikely that the SSD will be used without redundancy.
> 
> If mirroring or other RAID redundancy is used, the probablilty of
> losing data as a result of chip failures is reduced essentially to
> zero.

Sure it will be used in RAID configs. RAID

But I will still assume that those with important data
want actual experience not just manufacturers claims
about reliability.

Arne