http://sqlblog.com/blogs/paul_nielsen/archive/tags/Samsung/default.aspxTags: SamsungenCommunityServer 2.1 SP2 (Build: 61129.1)http://sqlblog.com/blogs/paul_nielsen/archive/2008/05/26/256gb-ssds-and-wordperfect-for-windows.aspxMon, 26 May 2008 16:23:00 GMT21093a07-8b3d-42db-8cbf-3350fcbf5496:6983Paul Nielsen3http://sqlblog.com/blogs/paul_nielsen/comments/6983.aspxhttp://sqlblog.com/blogs/paul_nielsen/commentrss.aspx?PostID=6983<P><FONT face=arial,helvetica,sans-serif size=3>Samsung has announced a new&nbsp;</FONT><A class="" title="Samsung Releases 256Gb SSD" href="http://www.theage.com.au/news/technology/samsung-unveils-powerful-new-drive/2008/05/26/1211653918711.html"><FONT face=arial,helvetica,sans-serif size=3>256Gb</FONT></A><FONT face=arial,helvetica,sans-serif size=3>&nbsp;solid state drive. Production will begin later this year. The initial market is for notebooks, but the real market is for databases.&nbsp; </FONT></P> <P><FONT face=arial,helvetica,sans-serif size=3>SSD drives are faster than hard disks, more reliable, and have different access method performance patterns. Hard drives perform best while sequentially accesses large blocks of data. SSDs are equally capable of accessing random data or sequential data.</FONT></P> <P><FONT face=arial,helvetica,sans-serif size=3>This change is as significant as the change from paper tape to mag tape, or mag tape to hard drives. Database vendors that grok this evolutionary step and&nbsp;rewrite their storage engine to optimize for SSD drives will survive. Those that don't will go the way of WordPerfect for Windows (WordPerfect once owned 99% of the word processing market. WordPerfect didn't move to Windows very gracefully, and as a result, many PC users don't even remember WordPerfect.)</FONT></P> <P><FONT size=3></FONT>&nbsp;</P><img src="http://sqlblog.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=6983" width="1" height="1">SamsungSSDTrends