Where Are Those eXFlash SSDs For Power Systems-IBM i?
November 28, 2011 Timothy Prickett Morgan
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You only see what you are looking at, and like the rest of you in IBM i Land, I have paid close attention to the flash-based solid state drives in 3.5-inch and 2.5-inch form factors that Big Blue has offered specifically for the Power Systems lineup. But IBM’s System x and BladeCenter blade servers have even smaller and less costly SSDs that, at least according to the IBM literature, are perfectly fine for I/O intensive database workloads and that are not available on the Power Systems machines. A recent deal for System x customers brought these smaller SATA drives to |
