EDN

Highest Performance Flash Disk Controller in the Smallest Package?

SST (Silicon Storage Technology, Inc., announced a new family of ATA Flash Disk Controllers, providing customers with the industry's highest-performance standalone controller. Utilizing SST's embedded ...
EDN

Disk controller supports NAND flash memory in mass-storage systems

Sunnyvale, Calif.—The SST55LC100 CompactFlash NAND flash disk controller from Silicon Storage Technology Inc. (SST) enables designers to build mass-data storage systems with standard NAND flash memory ...
Ars Technica

Bizarre Proliant Smart Array issue: bootable disk controller changed by itself

We have several identical ML370 G5 servers at one site (and some DL380s and AS/400 but those don't feature in this story.) I installed windows updates on all of these servers and rebooted. Pretty ...
Electronic Design

Disk Controller/Read-Channel Family Handles The Gamut Of Power Requirements For Today's Portables

Circuits with performance tailored to meet almost every storage market segment—that's the driving force behind Agere's latest additions to its TrueStore family of ...
Electronic Design

Hard-Disk Motor Controller Maximizes Battery Life

STMicroelectronics’ compact and highly-integrated hard disk-drive (HDD) Motor Controller targets 1.8-in. and sub-1.8-in. drives used in portable products such as MP3 and video players. The L7208 HDD ...
Ars Technica

HP DL380 G6 - BIOS default is to have Disk Write cache "disabled" - performance hit?

Going through the BIOS menu afterward I noticed that the default for Advanced Options > Drive Write Cache is "Disabled". Does this mean that all the drivex in the box (which are attached to the ...
Redmond Magazine

Working with Hyper-V Virtual Disks in PowerShell

A common way to attach a virtual hard disk to a virtual machine is via the Hyper-V Manager. But, as Brien shows, you can use PowerShell instead. Recently, I have been spending some time coming up with ...