Has Crosswalk closed its doors?

I received a tip from a reader yesterday that Crosswalk, a company I wrote about last year, has closed its doors. I’ve called Crosswalk to confirm. I hope the tip is wrong, but many of the early players in the company have moved on already, which is rarely a...

Why aren’t disk reads more reliable?

Over on Storage Bits I’ve ignited quite a bit of controversy with the post Why RAID 5 stops working in 2009. My point in that post is that as SATA disk drive capacity continues to increase, and the unrecoverable read error (URE) rate remains constant, the time...

Who makes the best consumer disk drives?

I just did a post over at the more consumer-oriented StorageMojo doppelgänger Storage Bits titled “Who makes the best hard drives?” In it I attempted to determine, based on simple search requests, if any drive vendor had a real advantage or disadvantage....