by Robin Harris | Sunday, May 21, 2006 | SSD/Flash/NVRAM
16GB Flash Drive Price Begins Downward Slide The price of the 16GB USB 2.0 flash drive dropped to $1175 at mWave, an almost $200 drop from less than a month ago. Two data points do not make a trend, but let’s watch this and see if a 15% drop per quarter trend...
by Robin Harris | Sunday, May 21, 2006 | Enterprise, Future Tech |
Over at DrunkenData.com, John William Toigo responded to The Open Source Storage Revolution Everyone Should Join with, well, condescension. Read his post here. I sent him a note in response that I trust he will soon post in the comments. I flagged the StorageMojo.com...
by Robin Harris | Friday, May 19, 2006 | Enterprise, Future Tech, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
Except Storage Vendors It’s time to break the back of the storage oligopoly. Rip the still-beating heart out of this proprietary industry, drop it in a blender and hit “puree”. We have the weapons. History is on our side. Now is the time. Here is the...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, May 18, 2006 | Enterprise, Future Tech, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
In yesterday’s post I ran through a quick (really, it was!) overview of the Google File System’s organization and storage-related features such as RAID and high-availability. I want to offer a little more data about the performance of GFS before offering...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, May 18, 2006 | Backup, Future Tech
The busy storage elves at IBM’s Almaden Research Center have crammed almost 7 billion bits — about 800 megabytes — onto a square inch of test tape, a 15x improvement over today’s shipping products. The PR goes on to say: The demonstration shows...
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