Allyn Malventano at PC Perspective has been putting an Intel X25-M through its paces. And the news is a bit worrying...

Long-term performance analysis of Intel Mainstream SSDs - PC Perspective

Since the flash locations are isolated from the OS by a lookup table, these fragments can not (presently) be directly manipulated by the OS, leaving any defragmentation efforts to the SSD itself. These fragmented areas will remain until they are overwritten by larger contiguous files. The end result is that the drive is not so much ‘adapting’ as it is approaching a steady state level of internal fragmentation as a result of the mix of small / large files being written to it.

Data Centers Ignoring Green As Drive To Cut Costs Magnifies - Press Release

A survey of registered attendees at this year’s Data Centre World has revealed that only one in eight data centre managers cite a desire to go green as the key reason for implementing energy saving solutions, falling from one in three this time last year. The effects of the credit crunch mean that reducing the carbon footprint of data centres has become less of a priority than ever before; saving money is still the number one reason for lowering power consumption in today’s data centres, according to the new survey released today by the organisers of Data Centre World, the UK’s first and only data centre expo (24th and 25th February 2009 at the Barbican, London).

Silver Spring: A Growing Presence in Green Tech - Business Week

Demand for smart meters in particular may make six-year-old Spring Networks the most important green technology startup you've never heard of. Thanks to contracts from PG&E, Florida Power & Light, and other utilities, Silver Spring boasts a backlog of orders for meters and related technology worth $500 million, a princely sum for a company of Silver Spring's age. The company is on track to generate positive cash flow in the second half of 2009, says President and CEO Scott Lang. "We are trying to transform the power industry for the 21st century," Lang says.

DoE readies $4.3b for smart grid - EE Times

The U.S. Department of Energy has 60 days to set up a competitive process to award an estimated $4.3 billion for projects that will upgrade the nation's electric grid. That's one of the top clean technology provisions of the $787 billion economic stimulus package President Barack Obama signed into law Tuesday (Feb. 17).

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