SSD - Solid State Disk

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SSD - Solid State Disk

Good Generic SSD and Product Overview - STORAGEsearch.com

Product Specific

Microdrives

Microdrives - 8 and 12 GB Microdrives

Flash

msystems SSD SerialATA (SATA) Drives using TrueFFS - msystems
msystems SSD TrueFFS Drives - msystems

Booting from USB Flash

Knoppix bootable USB key - "Recipe" for creating a Knoppix bootable USB key. Originally posted to the forums - Thanks Mark McCoy.
HOWTO - creating a bootable USB stick - Thanks Bruce Dubbs
Roll your Desktop into a USB stick/CD - take your Desktop, roll it into an ISO pipe and smoke a USB stick or CD - Thanks Borries Demeler
Syslinux lightweight bootloaders for media - Good generic solutions. Thanks Don Wright
Debian Manual A.2.3. USB memory stick - Thanks Don Wright

From Another mailing List

Mandriva - Mandriva Flash is a pre-installed Mandriva Linux distribution on a 4GB USB key
Howto install-usb-stick - This mini HOW-TO explains how to install SystemRescueCd on USB stick or SATA disks.
How to install boot and run Linux from USB - How to install boot and run Linux from a USB flash pen drive

Generic SSD

SSD - Wikipedia
RAM Disk (SSD) - Wikipedia
Flash Memory - Wikipedia
Flash Disk - Wikipedia
USB Flash Drive - Wikipedia
Secondary Storage - Wikipedia

Real World SSD Performance

Oracle and SSD Benchmark Results
Same article from two different places. Graphs are better in the Burleson Consulting one

A Comparison of Solid State Drives to SerialATA (SATA) Drive Arrays for Use with Oracle - Burleson Consuilting - DBAzine
A Comparison of Solid State Drives to SerialATA (SATA) Drive Arrays for Use with Oracle - DBAzine

SSD Speed Limit of the Information Uiniverse

Throughput Defined - Wikipedia
Latency vs. Throughput - Wikipedia
Throughput Bus Bottleneck in all Computers - Wikipedia
Throughput (DTR - Data Transfer Rate) Bottleneck in all Computers - Wikipedia