HP will increase the server in solid-state storage technology

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Hewlett-Packard and start-up Fusion-io Wednesday announced that they will work together in HP’s server products used in the Fusion-io’s solid-state disk technology.

In Las Vegas at the 2008 HP Technology Forum and Exhibition on the cooperation of the two companies announced the news. Fusion-io chief technology officer David Flynn said that in HP’s server, we will use the ioDrive NAND flash memory products, will enable HP servers to increase storage capacity of 640 GB, 2009, the server capacity will increase to 1.28 TB. However, chief technology officer refused to provide the relevant price, product packaging or the date of shipment information.

So far, many corporate customers to use solid-state disk lack of confidence, they said waiting for this technology to lower their prices and worried about the durability of solid-state disk.

Storage vendor EMC last month that was widely recognized enterprise customers, solid-state flash memory technology to lower the price. EMC announced in January this year, as the company high-end Symmetrix storage products of a choice, it will provide solid-state flash memory technology.