Demartek SSD Zone - Solid State Drive Resources

Welcome to the Demartek Solid State Drive (SSD) Resources, a collection of SSD research including results from tests run in our lab with various types of SSDs. Information describing Demartek testing services, lab infrastructure and contact information is available on our lab validation testing page.

Transfer rates, history and roadmap items for various storage interfaces are available on the Demartek Storage Networking Interface Comparison page.

Public Presentations
Public Evaluations and Lab Reports
Articles and Commentary

Public Presentations Including Videos and Podcasts

Demartek Discusses Performance and New Technologies at the Storage Decisions Conference New York in November 2015
Demartek Discusses Real-World Performance of Flash-Based Storage Systems at the Flash Memory Summit 2015
Demartek Presents at Data Storage Innovation (DSI) Conference April 2015
Demartek Presents at SNIA Storage Developer Conference September 2014
Demartek Presents Real-World Performance of Flash-Based Storage Systems at the Flash Memory Summit 2014
Make Sense of All-Flash Array Vendors' Wild Flash Performance Claims - Podcast May 2014
Demartek Presents at the IT Roadmap Conference Denver in June 2014
Demartek Presents at the Data Storage Innovation (DSI) Conference in April 2014
Demartek Presents at the IT Roadmap Conference Chicago in March 2014
Demartek Presents at Storage Decisions Conference San Francisco in October 2013
Demartek Interview: To Use 16Gbps Fibre Channel or Not - That Is The Question
Demartek to Present at SNW USA in October 2013
Demartek Presenting at Storage Decisions New York in September 2013
Demartek Presents at Flash Memory Summit 2013
Demartek Presents Data Destruction Methods
Demartek Discusses SSDs at Storage Decisions Chicago 2013
Dennis Martin discusses Where (and How and Why) to Implement Solid-State Storage with TechTarget
Demartek Adds Two New TechTarget Videos to the Demartek Video Library
Tech Target: Dennis Martin Discusses Today's Solid-State Storage Devices
Tech Target: MLC vs. SLC
Tech Target: MLC vs. SLC, Part II
Tech Target: Addressing the SSD Write Penalty
Demartek Presents Analyst Perspective: SSD Caching vs. SSD Tiering
Demartek Presents Everything You Wanted To Know About Cabling But Were Afraid To Ask Webcast
Demartek Presents Solid State Storage Half-day Seminars 2012
Demartek Presents SSD Technologies at Storage Decisions San Francisco 2011
Demartek Makes the Case for SSDs at the RMWTUG October 2011 Meeting
Demartek Presents SSD Technologies at Storage Decisions New York 2011
Demartek Presents SSDs at Flash Memory Summit 2011
Demartek Presents SSD technologies at Storage Decisions Chicago 2011
Demartek Presents YouTube Video of LSI FastPath Performance
Demartek Presents YouTube Video of LSI WarpDrive Performance
Demartek Presents SSDs at February 2011 RMWTUG Meeting
Demartek to Present SSD, FCoE, and I/O Virtualization Technologies at SNW Spring 2011
Demartek Interviewed for Solid State Storage Podcast
Demartek Presents YouTube Video of LSI CacheCade Performance
Demartek to Present SSD and FCoE technologies at the Storage Decisions Conference in San Francisco in November 2010
Demartek to Present SSD Technology at SNW USA in October 2010
Demartek to Present SSD and FCoE technologies at the Storage Decisions Conference in New York in September 2010
Demartek to Present Storage Best Practices for Microsoft Server Applications at SNW Europe 2010
Demartek to Present at Flash Memory Summit 2010
Demartek to Present SSD and FCoE technologies at the Storage Decisions Conference in Chicago in June 2010
Demartek To Present SSD and FCoE technologies at the Storage Decisions Conference in San Francisco, November 17, 2009
Demartek to Present SSD and FCoE at Storage Decisions New York, September 2009
Demartek to Present SSD and related technologies at Storage Decisions Conference June 2009 session in Chicago and Toronto
Demartek to Present SSDs, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 at RMWTUG May 2009 session
Demartek to Present SSD and related technologies at Storage Networking World Conference April 2009

Public Evaluations and Lab Reports

Demartek Evaluation: Lenovo Storage Array S3200
Demartek Evaluation: Dot Hill AssuredSAN 4824 in a Mixed Workload Environment
Demartek Evaluation of Dell - Samsung - Aerospike Fraud Prevention Solution
Demartek Evaluation of PMC-Sierra Flashtec NVMe2032 Controller vs. Eight SATA SSDs
Demartek Evaluation of Violin Memory 7300 FSP for Multiple Primary Storage Workloads
Demartek Evaluates HP ProLiant Gen9 vs Gen8 and G7 Server Blades
Demartek Evaluation: Microsoft Exchange for the Small-to-Medium Business on Dot Hill AssuredSAN 4824
Demartek Evaluation: Improving SQL Server Database Performance with Dot Hill AssuredSAN 4824 Flash Upgrades
Demartek Evaluates HP ProLiant Gen8 vs Gen9 Server Blades
Demartek Evaluates Emulex LPe16002B in VMware Bootstorm Environment
Demartek Evaluation: Improving Oracle Database Response Times with All-Flash HP 3PAR StoreServ 7450c
Demartek Evaluation of HP 3PAR StoreServ 7450 8GFC Express Writes
Demartek Evaluation of HP 3PAR StoreServ 7450 16GFC All-Flash Storage
Demartek Evaluates HP StoreFabric SN1100E and Brocade 6510 16Gb Fibre Channel Performance
Demartek Evaluation of IBM FlashSystem 840 with VMware VMmark 2.5
Demartek 16Gb Fibre Channel Deployment Guide
Demartek Evaluation of HP 3PAR StoreServ 7450 All-flash Storage
Demartek Evaluation of NetApp Hybrid Array with Flash Pool Technology
Demartek Evaluation of HP Blade Server and HP MSA 16GFC Storage
Demartek Evaluation of NetApp Flash Storage Portfolio
Demartek Evaluates NetApp EF540 All-Flash Array and the SANtricity SSD Cache Technology
Demartek Evaluation of EMC VNX8000 and XtremSW Cache
Demartek Evaluates HP StoreFabric SN1000E 16GFC HBA
Demartek Analysis of VDI Storage Performance During Bootstorm
Demartek Astute Networks ViSX G4 iSCSI Flash Storage Appliance Evaluation
Demartek Publishes STEC s1120 PCIe Accelerator and EnhanceIO SSD Cache Software Evaluation
Demartek Publishes LSI Nytro XD Caching Solution Evaluation (September Update)
Demartek Publishes VeloBit SSD Caching Software Evaluation
Demartek SSD Deployment Guide Download Statistics - First 30 Days
Demartek Publishes Texas Memory Systems High-Performance Oracle RAC Architecture with 16 Gbps Fibre Channel
Demartek Publishes GridIron High-Performance MySQL Cluster Architecture with 16 Gbps Fibre Channel
Demartek SSD Deployment Guide 2012-Q2
Demartek Publishes LSI Nytro XD Caching Solution Evaluation
Demartek Publishes SMART Storage Systems XceedStor 500S SSD Evaluation
Demartek Publishes EMC VFCache Evaluation
Demartek SSD Primer
Demartek Low Latency Evaluation of Fibre Channel, iSCSI and SAS Host Interfaces
Demartek Demartek iSCSI Deployment Guide 2011
Demartek Publishes Evaluation of LSI WarpDrive Performance
Demartek Publishes Evaluation of LSI MegaRAID FastPath Performance
Demartek Publishes Evaluation of LSI MegaRAID CacheCade Performance
Demartek Adds SSDs to its Test Lab

Articles and Commentary

Tech Target: Demartek Publishes Article on What’s Next for Solid State
Demartek Comments on FMS2015 (Flash Memory Summit) and IDF2015
Demartek Comments on the SNIA Storage Developer Conference (SDC) 2014
Demartek Comments on IDF2014 and NVMe, Thunderbolt 2, USB 3.1 and PCIe 4.0
Demartek Comments on the Flash Memory Summit 2014
Demartek Comments on IDF2013 and NVMe
Tech Target: Dennis Martin Discusses Best Practices for SSD Technologies
Demartek Commentary — Horses, Buggies and SSDs
Dennis Martin Discusses Data Center Storage Bottlenecks
Demartek Comments on IDF2012 and NVMe
Demartek Adds PCI Express 3.0 Server to Test Lab
Demartek Announces Lab Upgrades for June 2012
Demartek Expert Q&A: Five questions on SSD
Demartek Comments on the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2012
Demartek Adds Small, Fast Server to its Test Lab
Demartek Announces its Second SSD Giveaway
Demartek Comments on Storage Efficiency and SSDs
Demartek Publishes Article on Storage Networking Alternatives
Demartek SSD Giveaway - October 2011
Demartek Adds Large-Memory Server to its Test Lab
Demartek Publishes Article on the Hyper-V P2V Conversion Process and Storage Considerations
Demartek Publishes Article on the Impact of SSD Technology on the Network and CPU
Demartek Comments on Storage Networking World Spring 2011
Demartek Publishes Article on SSD Caching vs Primary Storage
Demartek Comments on the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2011
Demartek Puts SSDs Into Production
Demartek Publishes Storage Networking Interface Comparison Summary (Updated 28-August-2015)
Demartek Publishes Article on Solid-State Storage
Demartek Comments on the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2010
Demartek Adds its First Nehalem System to its Test Lab
Demartek asks: Is SSD Technology Ready for the Enterprise?

More information

To be notified when we post new deployment guides, evaluation reports and commentaries, sign-up for our free monthly newsletter, Demartek Lab Notes. We do not give out, rent or sell our email list.