FlashStore: New Advanced Technology From Microsoft  To
accelerate RAM to SSD transfer  By Jean-Jacques Maleval on
2011.02.21 AddThis Social Bookmark Button  This clear and well-
written article is signed by Doug Gantenbein, a
consultant/vendor at Douglasgantenbein.com who formerly spent
two years as senior editor of Microsoft News Center:  Faster
Servers, Services with FlashStore Memory has its faults-and not
only the human variety.  Hard drives, for instance, can hold
terabytes cheaply. But they're slow. Random-access memory (RAM)
is fast but expensive, and data in RAM disappear the instant the
power goes off. Flash memory is faster than hard drives and
cheaper than RAM, and it retains information. But the way it
handles data writes handicaps its usefulness in server
environments.  Still, the distinct advantages of flash-
particularly its ability to retain data when power is off, as
well as its speed-led two Microsoft Research scientists, Sudipta
Sengupta and Jin Li, to develop what they call FlashStore. It's