On 08/07/2012 12:12 AM, Christopher George wrote:
>> Is your DDRdrive product still supported and moving?
>
> Yes, we now exclusively target ZIL acceleration.
>
> We will be at the upcoming OpenStorage Summit 2012,
> and encourage those attending to stop by our booth and
> say hello :-)
>
> http://www.openstoragesummit.org/
>
>> Is it well supported for Illumos?
>
> Yes! Customers using Illumos derived distros make-up a
> good portion of our customer base.
How come I haven't seen new products coming from you guys? I mean, the
X1 is past 3 years old and some improvements would be sort of expected
in that timeframe. Off the top of my head, I'd welcome things such as:
*) Increased capacity for high-volume applications.
*) Remove the requirement to have an external UPS (couple of
supercaps? microbattery?)
*) Use cheaper MLC flash to lower cost - it's only written to in case
of a power outage, anyway so lower write cycles aren't an issue and
modern MLC is almost as fast as SLC at sequential IO (within 10%
usually).
*) PCI Express 3.0 interface (perhaps even x4)
*) Soldered-on DRAM to create a true low-profile card (the current DIMM
slots look like a weird dirty hack).
*) At least updated benchmarks your site to compare against modern
flash-based competition (not the Intel X25-E, which is seriously
stone age by now...)
*) Lower price, lower price, lower price.
I can get 3-4 200GB OCZ Talos-Rs for $2k FFS. That means I could
equip my machine with one to two mirrored slogs and nearly 800GB
worth of L2ARC for the price of a single X1.
I mean this as constructive criticism, not as angry bickering. I totally
respect you guys doing your own thing.
Cheers,
--
Saso
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