by Robin Harris | Tuesday, April 25, 2006 | Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
The emergence of a 16GB USB flash drive for $1363 poses an interesting question: will Samsung’s pre-announced 32GB flash drive cost $2600? Clearly there is some kind of kink in the price curve when a 4GB flash drive costs $19/GB, 8GB costs $32/GB and 16GB...
by Robin Harris | Monday, April 24, 2006 | Enterprise, Future Tech, SOHO/SMB |
Maybe I’m late to the party but I just noticed that Hitachi is touting RVS, Rotational Vibration Safeguard (pdf). Since all disks in disk drives rotate, all drives have had rotational vibration from day one. So what’s new? Is this the equivalent of...
by Robin Harris | Saturday, April 22, 2006 | Security & Public Policy, SOHO/SMB |
In this post Prof. Eugene Spafford of Purdue talks about security and passwords. There are so many buzzwords and scare-tactic marketing in security that most of the non-technical people I know are reduced to the cyber equivalent of burnt offerings: they subscribe to...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, April 20, 2006 | Backup, Enterprise |
StorageMojo’s /.’d post on 25x data compression invited much derision and a few knowledgeable comments. One of those comments pointed to Data Domain who claim up to 50x compression on “. . . data sets in certain use cases . . . .” Obviously the...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, April 19, 2006 | Enterprise, SAN, FC |
Byte and Switch has posted an article on ILM (Information Lifecyle Management) where users note that it is very difficult to classify data and to move large quantities from more expensive to less expensive storage. These problems are consequences of the...
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