The MAINGEAR Solo 21 All-in-One offers up to 16GB of DDR3-1600 memory and supports full size hard drives up to 1TB of storage, an mSATA SSD up to 256GB for maximum storage performance, and optional eSATA for fast external storage.
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The Open Compute Project storage page also references Fusion-IO PCIe storage cards with up to 3.2 TB of storage capacity, which are used by Facebook to speed up overall storage system performance.
Also intelligent storage layering with flash memory used for high performance content delivery can result in HDD storage used more for content storage rather than high performance, and thus providing a relative cost savings.
However even with data center developments such as compression, virtualization and deduplication the costs of on-line storage exceed that of local storage and the performance of on-line storage is significantly less than local storage.
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Fusion Drive is an innovative new storage option that gives customers the performance of flash storage and the capacity of a hard drive.
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Advances in processors, graphics, displays and storage have driven performance up and costs down.
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Most of these devices are used for caching and high performance storage tiering applications.
It can be built out modularly with higher performance storage, redundant disks, and, natch, a Thunderbolt Display.
Francisco said the new system can provide 5X performance improvement, partly through work IBM has done in high performance storage.
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Fusion-io sees this acquisition as adding to its market offerings for storage for high performance enterprise environments and accelerating the adoption of Fusion-io technology.
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Every new iMac now comes standard with 8GB of 1600 MHz memory and a 1TB hard drive, and customers can choose to configure their iMac with up to 32GB of memory and a new 3TB hard drive, or 768GB of flash storage for ultimate performance.
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The addition of SSDs in the IBM storage arrays adds them to the list of storage vendors with SSD options including EMS, NetApp and HDS. Overall the growth of solid-state storage to accelerate and improve enterprise storage and server performance is gaining widespread adoption.
The company also presented data from a SNIA SSSI total cost of ownership (TCO) calculator showing that a high performance storage system using the 710 series SSDs would be considerably cheaper in terms of overall costs (including operating expenses) than a HDD array using high performance HDDs.
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For computer users who need access to a lot of content, and many Macbook Pro users are film editors, graphic artists and other creative professionals who often need access to significant stored content, a good amount of local storage with higher performance at a lower price than apure SSD computer could be very attractive.
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At the Flash Memory Summit Toshiba demonstrated their hybrid hard disk drive, joining Seagate as a provider of these storage devices that can provide performance similar to that of SSD with the storage costs closer to that of hard disk drives.
By combining HDD storage capacity with the higher performance of flash memory, a total system performance close to flash memory can be achieved with storage costs close to those of HDDs.
Plextor is a leading developer of high-performance digital storage equipment for professionals, consumers and enterprises.
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LaCie completely re-engineered these external storage solutions for optimized performance with new Mac computers.
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The studio was located in the beer-storage shed above the performance stage at the city's premier nightclub, Tipitinas.
Many times, the simple answer to speed performance from storage vendors is throw more disk at the problem.
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There's also a 60GB SSD and 1TB hard drive under the hood so you don't have to choose between performance or storage.
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As video resolution and frame rate increase and stereoscopic projects multiply, the storage capacity and bandwidth performance of these devices and systems becomes staggering.
Fusion-io is known for its high performance PCIe storage products and IO Turbine is offering technology for using flash storage for caching data in a virtualized enterprise environment.
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The performance and storage improvements alone are worth the upgrade.
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Solid state storage has become a permanent part of the storage hierarchy, improving the overall performance and reducing energy use in a growing number of storage-intensive applications and systems.
Fusion Drive adapts to the way you use your iMac and automatically moves the files and apps you use most often to flash storage to enable faster performance and quicker access.
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Storage device companies such as Seagate can provide cost effective storage solutions that could have special power saving or performance features that would be attractive to open storage system designers.
With the addition of one or more storage systems connected to a high-performance RAID controller, users can deploy virtually unlimited RAID-protected shared storage across the network.
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Caching frequently used content on SSDs or flash memory is becoming a common approach to accelerate performance for most storage system suppliers.
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