ZFS On Mac: Easier Than You Thought

by | Tuesday, February 27, 2007 | Future Tech | 7 comments

Not so easy I could do it, though ZFS is the übercool Solaris file system cum volume manager cum software RAID now being ported to Apple’s Leopard (see ZFS On Mac: Now All But Official and ZFS: Threat or Menace?. Lots of skepticism from people who can’t...

NetApp Weighs In On Disks

by | Monday, February 26, 2007 | Enterprise, NAS, IP, iSCSI | 10 comments

As promised in the Open Letter to Seagate, Hitachi, EMC, IBM, NetApp, HP and Sun, StorageMojo is giving this space to NetApp to respond to Everything You Know About Disks Is Wrong and Google’s Disk Failure Experience. Props to NetApp for being quick off the mark...

Flash Tipping Point Next Year

by | Friday, February 23, 2007 | Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM | 0 comments

The Financial Times published an article that predicts Prices of flash memory chips have plunged to a critical “tipping-point” that could see them replacing hard discs as the storage technology of choice on laptop computers within two years. Since everyone seems...

Inside Skinny On Isilon

by | Wednesday, February 21, 2007 | Clusters, NAS, IP, iSCSI | 4 comments

Already did the outside skinny I talked to Sujal Patel, founder and CTO of Isilon, last week to learn more about Isilon. As I’d mentioned in my posts on the company I was surprised that there wasn’t more technical information about the products on their...