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Google is allegedly planning to make the transition from conventional hard-disk drives to the more reliable and energy-efficient solid-state drives. The change will affect most of the search engine's servers located at Google's US headquarters sometime during the second quarter of the year....
Sources at memory makers claim Google is going to experiment with solid state drives in some of its servers. DigiTimes says Intel has gained SSD orders from Google:The more power efficient SSDs will be installed at severs at Google's US headquarters. Intel will supply flash chips and Marvell the...
Solid state drives aren't exactly mainstream. They would fit right in with the solar panels, Prius fleets, and organic food that can be found around the Googleplex, however, and that's reportedly where they're going.read more ... Energy savings the goal Solid state drives...
The company's adoption of solid state drives will reportedly save energy, speed search, and potentially lead to a shortage of 16-GB and 32-GB NAND flash chips. ... By Thomas Claburn InformationWeek As part of its ongoing effort to save energy, Google appears to be...
Google has placed an order at Intel for SSD's. The company wants to switch some of it's servers to Solid State Drives, reducing energy consumption. The new energy efficient SSD's will be installed in a number of servers in Google's head office in the US, The flash memory chips will come from...
A report suggests Google is making a move into solid-state disks for its servers. But is it taking the plunge or dipping its toes in the water? ... Posted by Stephen Shankland | Post a comment Solid-state disks, which use flash memory instead of spinning magnetic platters...
Reports claim that Google wants to make a quick switch to SSD-based storage on some of their servers to save electricity. ... Intel is yet to deliver on their high-performance SSD promise for the mass-consumer market but the company finds a new buyer for their SSD...
Google plans to switch some of its servers over to solid-state drive-based (SSD-based) storage supplied by Intel in order to lower electricity consumption, according to sources at memory makers. ... The more power efficient SSDs will be installed at severs at Google's US...
