Expert video: SSD advantages and disadvantages

Expert video: SSD advantages and disadvantages

Expert video: SSD advantages and disadvantages

Date: Sep 02, 2010
In this expert videocast, Demartek Founder and President Dennis Martin outlines SSD advantages and disadvantages, including the major obstacles standing in the way of SSD adoption and its power and cooling advantages. He also outlines the kinds of questions you should be asking vendors when evaluating their SSD options, describes the tools that are available to manage SSDs and explains how SSD figures into a tiered storage architecture.

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