by Robin Harris | Friday, July 20, 2007 | Backup, Future Tech, Off-Topic, SOHO/SMB |
In a recent post, A Terabyte in the home? Hitachi’s CTO, the redoubtable Hu Yoshida writes I don’t believe there will be a market for home storage units. I believe internet service providers will provide the storage and data management for our personal data....
by Robin Harris | Friday, July 20, 2007 | Clusters |
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...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, July 19, 2007 | Disk |
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...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, July 11, 2007 | SOHO/SMB |
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....
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, July 10, 2007 | Architecture, Clusters, Future Tech, Information Management |
An alert reader sent this in as a comment this morning. Thank you! As of Jul 10, 1:00am PDT, 10 of the talks have been published (including the Lustre and Verisign ones). Searching for “seattle conference on scalability” on google video seems to return...
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