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Demartek SSD Zone - Solid State Drive Resources
Welcome to the Demartek Solid State Drive (SSD) Resources, a collection of SSD research including results from tests run in our lab with various types of SSDs. Information describing Demartek testing services, lab infrastructure and contact information is available on our lab validation testing page.
For more details on various interfaces used for SSDs, look in the transfer rate, history and roadmap sections of the Demartek Storage Networking Interface Comparison reference page.
Public Presentations Including Videos and Podcasts
- Demartek to Present Real-World Performance Results including NVMe over Fabrics at the Flash Memory Summit 2018
- Demartek to Present Real-World Performance Results at the Flash Memory Summit 2017
- Demartek Discusses Real-World Performance of Flash-Based Storage Systems at the Flash Memory Summit 2016
- Demartek Presents at Data Storage Innovation (DSI) Conference June 2016
- Demartek Discusses Performance and New Technologies at the Storage Decisions Conference New York in November 2015
- Demartek Discusses Real-World Performance of Flash-Based Storage Systems at the Flash Memory Summit 2015
- Demartek Presents at Data Storage Innovation (DSI) Conference April 2015
- Demartek Presents at SNIA Storage Developer Conference September 2014
- Demartek Presents Real-World Performance of Flash-Based Storage Systems at the Flash Memory Summit 2014
- Make Sense of All-Flash Array Vendors' Wild Flash Performance Claims - Podcast May 2014
- Demartek Presents at the IT Roadmap Conference Denver in June 2014
- Demartek Presents at the Data Storage Innovation (DSI) Conference in April 2014
- Demartek Presents at the IT Roadmap Conference Chicago in March 2014
- Demartek Presents at Storage Decisions Conference San Francisco in October 2013
- Demartek Interview: To Use 16Gbps Fibre Channel or Not - That Is The Question
- Demartek to Present at SNW USA in October 2013
- Demartek Presenting at Storage Decisions New York in September 2013
- Demartek Presents at Flash Memory Summit 2013
- Demartek Presents Data Destruction Methods
- Demartek Discusses SSDs at Storage Decisions Chicago 2013
- Dennis Martin discusses Where (and How and Why) to Implement Solid-State Storage with TechTarget
- Demartek Adds Two New TechTarget Videos to the Demartek Video Library
- Tech Target: Dennis Martin Discusses Today's Solid-State Storage Devices
- Tech Target: MLC vs. SLC
- Tech Target: MLC vs. SLC, Part II
- Tech Target: Addressing the SSD Write Penalty
- Demartek Presents Analyst Perspective: SSD Caching vs. SSD Tiering
- Demartek Presents Everything You Wanted To Know About Cabling But Were Afraid To Ask Webcast
- Demartek Presents Solid State Storage Half-day Seminars 2012
- Demartek Presents SSD Technologies at Storage Decisions San Francisco 2011
- Demartek Makes the Case for SSDs at the RMWTUG October 2011 Meeting
- Demartek Presents SSD Technologies at Storage Decisions New York 2011
- Demartek Presents SSDs at Flash Memory Summit 2011
- Demartek Presents SSD technologies at Storage Decisions Chicago 2011
- Demartek Presents YouTube Video of LSI FastPath Performance
- Demartek Presents YouTube Video of LSI WarpDrive Performance
- Demartek Presents SSDs at February 2011 RMWTUG Meeting
- Demartek to Present SSD, FCoE, and I/O Virtualization Technologies at SNW Spring 2011
- Demartek Interviewed for Solid State Storage Podcast
- Demartek Presents YouTube Video of LSI CacheCade Performance
- Demartek to Present SSD and FCoE technologies at the Storage Decisions Conference in San Francisco in November 2010
- Demartek to Present SSD Technology at SNW USA in October 2010
- Demartek to Present SSD and FCoE technologies at the Storage Decisions Conference in New York in September 2010
- Demartek to Present Storage Best Practices for Microsoft Server Applications at SNW Europe 2010
- Demartek to Present at Flash Memory Summit 2010
- Demartek to Present SSD and FCoE technologies at the Storage Decisions Conference in Chicago in June 2010
- Demartek To Present SSD and FCoE technologies at the Storage Decisions Conference in San Francisco, November 17, 2009
- Demartek to Present SSD and FCoE at Storage Decisions New York, September 2009
- Demartek to Present SSD and related technologies at Storage Decisions Conference June 2009 session in Chicago and Toronto
- Demartek to Present SSDs, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 at RMWTUG May 2009 session
- Demartek to Present SSD and related technologies at Storage Networking World Conference April 2009
Public Evaluations and Lab Reports
- Demartek Evaluation: Performance Benefits of NVMe™ over Fibre Channel vs Traditional FCP for Databases
- Demartek Evaluation: Emulex® Gen 7 Fibre Channel HBAs by Broadcom
- Demartek Evaluation: VDI Evaluation of Dell PowerEdge R7425 Servers
- Demartek Evaluation: Seagate Enterprise SATA SSD with DuraWrite™ Technology
- Demartek Updates its popular RoCE Deployment Guide (new 2018 edition)
- Demartek Evaluation: Performance Benefits of NVMe™ over Fibre Channel – A New, Parallel, Efficient Protocol
- Demartek Evaluation: Accelerating Exchange Server with the HPE MSA 2050 Storage with Built-in Flash
- Demartek Evaluation: Accelerating Database Workloads with the HPE MSA 2050 Storage with Built-in Flash
- Demartek Evaluation: Dell EMC PowerEdge R7415 AMD EPYC VMware vSAN Mixed Workloads Performance
- Demartek Discusses the Performance of SAS
- Demartek Evaluation: HPE 25GbE RDMA Benefits in Virtualized Environments
- Demartek Evaluation: HPE Cloudline CL3150 Gen10 High Performance Cloud Solutions
- Demartek Evaluation: Chelsio Terminator 6 (T6) Unified Wire Adapter iSCSI Offload
- Demartek Evaluation: Updated Seagate TurboBoost™ Enhanced Cache HDDs
- Demartek Evaluation: Viking Technology UHC-Silo 50TB SAS SSD
- Demartek Evaluation: Dell EMC FX2 Enterprise Database Workloads with Toshiba SSDs
- Demartek Evaluation: Dell EMC vSAN Mixed Enterprise Workloads with Toshiba SSDs
- Demartek Evaluation: Dell EMC XC Series Appliances VM Scaling with Toshiba SSDs
- Demartek Evaluation: Nutanix Delivers Intelligent Hyperconverged Infrastructure for Web-Scale End User Experience
- Demartek Evaluation: HPE 3PAR Snapshots
- Demartek RoCE Deployment Guide
- Demartek Evaluation: HPE StoreFabric Gen 6 Fibre Channel Server and Storage Solution
- Demartek Evaluation: HPE 3PAR Persistent Checksum
- Demartek Evaluation of the Chelsio T580-CR 40GbE iSCSI Offload Adapter
- Demartek Evaluation - Accelerating SQL Server 2016 with Dell PowerEdge R830 and QLogic Fibre Channel
- Demartek Evaluation: Accelerating Database Workloads using HPE MSA Storage with Built-in Flash
- Demartek Evaluation: Accelerating Oracle Data Warehousing with Emulex and Brocade Gen 6 Fibre Channel
- Demartek Evaluation: Accelerating SQL Server 2016 with Dell PowerEdge R930 and Emulex Fibre Channel (new report format)
- Demartek Evaluation: Maximizing the Potential of All-Flash Storage with end-to-end HPE StoreFabric Gen 5 16Gb Fibre Channel
- Demartek Evaluation: Improving Database Performance with Log Partitions on Microsemi NV1616 NVRAM Drives
- Demartek Evaluation: Accelerating Workload Performance with Cisco 16Gb Fibre Channel Deployments
- Demartek Evaluation of Gen 6 Fibre Channel Adapter from QLogic
- Demartek Evaluation of Gen 6 Fibre Channel Products from Emulex and Brocade
- Demartek Evaluation - HPE MSA 2040 in a Mixed Workload Environment
- Demartek Evaluation - Improving SQL Server Database Performance with HPE MSA 2040 Flash Upgrades
- Demartek Evaluation - Microsoft Exchange for the Small-to-Medium Business on HPE MSA 2040
- Demartek Evaluation: Lenovo Storage Array S3200
- Demartek Evaluation: Dot Hill AssuredSAN 4824 in a Mixed Workload Environment
- Demartek Evaluation of Dell - Samsung - Aerospike Fraud Prevention Solution
- Demartek Evaluation of PMC-Sierra Flashtec NVMe2032 Controller vs. Eight SATA SSDs
- Demartek Evaluates HP ProLiant Gen9 vs Gen8 and G7 Server Blades
- Demartek Evaluation: Microsoft Exchange for the Small-to-Medium Business on Dot Hill AssuredSAN 4824
- Demartek Evaluation: Improving SQL Server Database Performance with Dot Hill AssuredSAN 4824 Flash Upgrades
- Demartek Evaluates HP ProLiant Gen8 vs Gen9 Server Blades
- Demartek Evaluates Emulex LPe16002B in VMware Bootstorm Environment
- Demartek Evaluation: Improving Oracle Database Response Times with All-Flash HP 3PAR StoreServ 7450c
- Demartek Evaluation of HP 3PAR StoreServ 7450 8GFC Express Writes
- Demartek Evaluation of HP 3PAR StoreServ 7450 16GFC All-Flash Storage
- Demartek Evaluates HP StoreFabric SN1100E and Brocade 6510 16Gb Fibre Channel Performance
- Demartek Evaluation of IBM FlashSystem 840 with VMware VMmark 2.5
- Demartek 16Gb Fibre Channel Deployment Guide
- Demartek Evaluation of HP 3PAR StoreServ 7450 All-flash Storage
- Demartek Evaluation of NetApp Hybrid Array with Flash Pool Technology
- Demartek Evaluation of HP Blade Server and HP MSA 16GFC Storage
- Demartek Evaluation of NetApp Flash Storage Portfolio
- Demartek Evaluates NetApp EF540 All-Flash Array and the SANtricity SSD Cache Technology
- Demartek Evaluation of EMC VNX8000 and XtremSW Cache
- Demartek Evaluates HP StoreFabric SN1000E 16GFC HBA
- Demartek Analysis of VDI Storage Performance During Bootstorm
- Demartek Astute Networks ViSX G4 iSCSI Flash Storage Appliance Evaluation
- Demartek Publishes STEC s1120 PCIe Accelerator and EnhanceIO SSD Cache Software Evaluation
- Demartek Publishes LSI Nytro XD Caching Solution Evaluation (September Update)
- Demartek Publishes VeloBit SSD Caching Software Evaluation
- Demartek SSD Deployment Guide Download Statistics - First 30 Days
- Demartek Publishes Texas Memory Systems High-Performance Oracle RAC Architecture with 16 Gbps Fibre Channel
- Demartek Publishes GridIron High-Performance MySQL Cluster Architecture with 16 Gbps Fibre Channel
- Demartek SSD Deployment Guide 2012-Q2
- Demartek Publishes LSI Nytro XD Caching Solution Evaluation
- Demartek Publishes SMART Storage Systems XceedStor 500S SSD Evaluation
- Demartek Publishes EMC VFCache Evaluation
- Demartek Low Latency Evaluation of Fibre Channel, iSCSI and SAS Host Interfaces
- Demartek Demartek iSCSI Deployment Guide 2011
- Demartek Publishes Evaluation of LSI WarpDrive Performance
- Demartek Publishes Evaluation of LSI MegaRAID FastPath Performance
- Demartek Publishes Evaluation of LSI MegaRAID CacheCade Performance
- Demartek Adds SSDs to its Test Lab
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Demartek Updates its popular Storage Interface Comparison Reference Page
(Updated September 2018) - Demartek NVMe over Fabrics Rules of Thumb
- Demartek Comments on CES 2017
- Demartek Commentary: The Value of Flash for SMB Application Acceleration
- Demartek Discusses 3D NAND, NVMe and NVDIMM
- Demartek Comments on CES 2016
- Tech Target: Demartek Publishes Article on What’s Next for Solid State
- Demartek Comments on FMS2015 (Flash Memory Summit) and IDF2015
- Demartek Comments on the SNIA Storage Developer Conference (SDC) 2014
- Demartek Comments on IDF2014 and NVMe, Thunderbolt 2, USB 3.1 and PCIe 4.0
- Demartek Comments on the Flash Memory Summit 2014
- Demartek Comments on IDF2013 and NVMe
- Tech Target: Dennis Martin Discusses Best Practices for SSD Technologies
- Demartek Commentary — Horses, Buggies and SSDs
- Dennis Martin Discusses Data Center Storage Bottlenecks
- Demartek Comments on IDF2012 and NVMe
- Demartek Adds PCI Express 3.0 Server to Test Lab
- Demartek Announces Lab Upgrades for June 2012
- Demartek Expert Q&A: Five questions on SSD
- Demartek Comments on the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2012
- Demartek Adds Small, Fast Server to its Test Lab
- Demartek Announces its Second SSD Giveaway
- Demartek Comments on Storage Efficiency and SSDs
- Demartek Publishes Article on Storage Networking Alternatives
- Demartek SSD Giveaway - October 2011
- Demartek Adds Large-Memory Server to its Test Lab
- Demartek Publishes Article on the Hyper-V P2V Conversion Process and Storage Considerations
- Demartek Publishes Article on the Impact of SSD Technology on the Network and CPU
- Demartek Comments on Storage Networking World Spring 2011
- Demartek Publishes Article on SSD Caching vs Primary Storage
- Demartek Comments on the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2011
- Demartek Puts SSDs Into Production
- Demartek Publishes Article on Solid-State Storage
- Demartek Comments on the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2010
- Demartek Adds its First Nehalem System to its Test Lab
- Demartek asks: Is SSD Technology Ready for the Enterprise?