GLG News by Flash Memory Experts

Thomas CoughlinPresidentCoughlin Associates

Seagate and Samsung to collaborate on enterprise SSD controller development

August 25, 2010

Analysis of:Some Tech Behind the Seagate and Samsung SSD Controller Joint Development Agreement | enterprise.media.seagate.com

Seagate and Samsung announced that they will jointly develop and cross-license SSD controller technology for enterprise storage applications. Seagate is the highest volume manufacturer of enterprise HDDs while Samsung is the largest manufacturer of flash memory. The jointly developed controller is to be used in Seagate’s enterprise SSDs. Seagate joins Hitachi GST in seeking a partner in enterprise SSD development.

Thomas CoughlinPresidentCoughlin Associates

3PAR in play as importance of storage in enterprise increases

August 25, 2010

Analysis of:H-P Trumps Dell With Big for 3PAR | www.ibtimes.com

3PAR has competing offers to be acquired by HP and Dell. 3PAR makes highly scalable storage platforms offering virtualization and management automation. The 3PAR bidding war is the latest activity in a recent round of storage company acquisitions . Large storage players appear to be strengthening their product offerings through selective acquisitions.

Thomas CoughlinPresidentCoughlin Associates

SanDisk chip-sized SSD enables new computer Products

August 25, 2010

Analysis of:SanDisk Reveals World’s Smallest SSD, the ‘iSSD’ | www.tomshardware.com

SanDisk introduced a 64 GB Solid State Drive (SSD) called an iSSD. The iSSD is a small Ball Grid Array (BGA) chip that can be soldered into a motherboard and used for digital storage in a computer system. The iSSD supports the SATA interface allowing it to respond to the rich storage command set of the SATA specification. An embedded SSD with a very small form factor may help to create new categories of computer devices and consumer products

Thomas CoughlinPresidentCoughlin Associates

HDD companies collaborate for new technology introductions

August 25, 2010

Hitachi GST, Seagate and Western Digital formed the Storage Technology Alliance (STA). The STA was formed to help the companies work together to develop technologies to go beyond 1.5 Tbpsi areal density by 2014 or 2015. The new alliance has similarities to SEMI collaborative technology development projects for semiconductor technology development. The STA is working to bring other HDD companies, Samsung and Toshiba, as well as equipment and component technology into the effort.

Thomas CoughlinPresidentCoughlin Associates

Faster, Cheaper External Storage Coming

July 26, 2010

Analysis of:USB 3.0 chip prices set to drop through the floor | www.techeye.net

Native chips for implementing USB 3.0 connectivity in motherboards will drop dramatically later this year. Chip suppliers for USB 3.0 include NEC, Fresco Logic and Asmedia . Many motherboard manufacturers have announced plans to ship motherboards with USB 3.0 this year. By 2011 we may see a major switch from USB 2.0 to USB 3.0 for external storage devices.

Thomas CoughlinPresidentCoughlin Associates

Data Security in Flash Devices

July 21, 2010

USB drives, SSDs and other flash-based storage devices are used for storing personal and other sensitive data. Eliminating data on flash devices is required to help protect sensitive data. Traditional secure erase on flash creates endurance issues, crypto-erase is preferred. By the use of enhanced secure erase (or crypto-erase) SSDs should be able to be qualified as FIPS 140 complaint, making them available for many military and government applications.

Thomas CoughlinPresidentCoughlin Associates

High Performance Enterprise HDD Market Moves to SAS Interface

July 19, 2010

Analysis of:6 Gbps SAS drives signal end of line for Fibre Channel disk drives | searchstorage.techtarget.com

The Fibre Channel (FC) standards committee plans continual development of the interface from 8 Gbps (current) to 16 Gbps with a roadmap to 32 Gbps. The HDD companies have no plans for going beyond 4 Gbps Fibre Channel hard disk drives. SAS hard disk drives can now support 6 Gbps and have plans to migrate to 12 Gbps. High performance enterprise HDDs are in the process of transitioning from some FC to all SAS interfaces. Projections are that FC HDDs will stop shipping by 2013 or 2014

Thomas CoughlinPresidentCoughlin Associates

2.5-inch HDD Storage Capacities Increase this Year

July 18, 2010

Analysis of:1.5TB 2.5-inch Drives by the End of the Year | www.theregister.co.uk

ProStor, a HDD OEM, has removable RDX disk drive products using 2.5-inch disk drives. The company has indicated that it will have a 1.5 TB RDX product ready by the end of 2010. This means at least one HDD company will need to be shipping 1.5 TB 2.5-inch HDDs for at least OEM qualification by the end of 2010. It is not clear whether a 1.5 TB 2.5-inch HDD will have 2 or 3 disks and thus what areal density will be used.

Thomas CoughlinPresidentCoughlin Associates

Unit Volume Growth and Technology to Drive HDD Capital Equipment Spending

June 21, 2010

225% growth in HDD capital equipment spending between 2010 and 2015 is driven by unit demand increases, new technology introductions and updating facilities and processes. Annual unit shipments of over 1 B units per year likely by 2013. Introduction of heat assisted magnetic recording or patterned media will require new processes and capital equipment. Quite a bit of capital equipment for making HDD components is very old and a refresh of process equipment is expected over the next few years

Thomas CoughlinPresidentCoughlin Associates

Unit Volume Growth and Technology to Drive HDD Capital Equipment

June 20, 2010

225% growth in HDD capital equipment spending between 2010 and 2015 is driven by unit demand increases, new technology introductions and updating facilities and processes. Annual unit shipments of over 1 B units per year likely by 2013, effectively doubling shipments from 2009 level. Introduction of new technologies will require new processes and capital equipment. Also driving spending is a refresh of older process equipment over the next few years

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