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

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 ...