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Comments on: Dell conjures magic SD card for virtualizing blade server I/O

Access time? 

By Mark Broadhurst Posted Tuesday 1st July 2008 16:43 GMT

I might be missing the point here but I didnt think that an SD card had a great access time. Granted its a "special" one but come on?

SD card access... 

By Anonymous Coward Posted Tuesday 1st July 2008 16:59 GMT

SD cards are not that bad on access time. One can but hope that Dell stumped for some of the 133x Lexar ones.

:-)

@Access time 

By Peyton Posted Tuesday 1st July 2008 17:47 GMT

I've not used one of these systems, but I would guess the SD card is read when the blade chassis is brought up and that's it... I don't think that's going to cause any sort of performance bottleneck...

Access time 

By Anonymous Coward Posted Tuesday 1st July 2008 19:13 GMT

SD Card is used just for activation, not for use in the data path.

Web Chat Transcript on FlexAddress 

By Todd Muirhead Posted Tuesday 1st July 2008 19:45 GMT

We hosted a web chat with some of the FlexAddress experts here at Dell last week. The transcript is located here -

http://www.delltechcenter.com/page/06-24-08+Flexible+Blades+Management+Features+Web+Chat

The question of access time is addressed in the chat and the previous comments are correct about it just being used to initially get FlexAddress going - and not on an ongoing basis.