now that non-volatile memory technology - flash today, plus RRAM tomorrow - has been widely accepted, it is time to build systems that use flash directly instead of through our antique storage stacks.
Hear hear! The basic storage model that arose in the 50's and 60's being the best fit for recently developed hardware seems as likely as the security models from the 50's and 60's being the best fit for the Internet.
(If the obnoxious popup adverts from ZDNet strike me as archaic, they are not doing well.)
If NAND continues to function the way it does today, we would still need to standardize on some kind of interface to get traction. The advantage of SATA, SAS, PCIe, et. al. are their pervasiveness in the PC world. His proposal basically boils down to "NAND on SATA is kinda slow because of all the latency from stuff. We should just hook the NAND up to one of the upstream buses." It's unclear to me how this is different from what is already being done.
Hear hear! The basic storage model that arose in the 50's and 60's being the best fit for recently developed hardware seems as likely as the security models from the 50's and 60's being the best fit for the Internet.
(If the obnoxious popup adverts from ZDNet strike me as archaic, they are not doing well.)