Flash-based solid state disk (SSD) everywhere and anywhere defers or eliminates the need for additional high performance disk purchases to drive performance.

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Simplified, higher density and more reliable servers make the hyperscale all-flash datacenter more efficient than datacenters based on solid state disk and hard disk systems.

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Commonly called SSDs or Solid State Disks, these devices put NAND flash into computing environments that typically would use hard disk drives, or HDDs.

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"Solid state" storage systems, like flash memory, offer some clear advantages over the spinning-disk drives of the past.

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Flash as a form of solid state storage is much faster for reading and writing data than the spinning disks in traditional disk drives.

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The flash cache is used to store frequently accessed data providing the fast data response found in solid state drives while the hard disk storage provides low cost storage.

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Getting to that stage might mean combining self-assembly methods with lithography, or doing away with the head that reads the data-packed disk and instead creating a self-assembling solid-state system on the model of Flash memory storage used today.

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