Sun calls for SSD companies to unite on standards

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Players in the solid-state drive (SSD) industry need to unite and establish an umbrella organization that establishes standards that define the technology, like its performance, a Sun Microsystems executive said yesterday.

The SSD industry, while in its infancy, has organizations establishing separate standards around SSD metrics, and there is not enough work being done to standardize them, said Michael Cornwell, lead technologist for flash memory at Sun.

"We don't see a focus among suppliers and vendors like ourselves because everyone looks at their implementation [individually] rather than as an industry implementation," Cornwell said.

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