The China syndrome

What is Cantonese for “sucks”? A piece in the UK web site The Register, says of some recent Mac drives: According to Retrodata, its customers have sent in a much higher number of failed Seagate 2.5in SATA drives made in China and loaded with firmware...

Flash Performance on a Nokia N800

I came across this simple – too simple? – flash performance benchmark on an anonymous blog named DelayToleraNt. The benchmark is a Java program that creates random data (in chunks of kilobyte) and writes the data to a file. For comparison I ran the same...

Sun counter-punches NetApp

Yippie-ki-yi-yay As we say here in ranch country. Sun sent out a press release on the NetApp fracas today. I didn’t have time to parse it, so here’s the raw intelligence: Sun was legally obligated to respond in Texas to the initial suit brought on...

StorageMojo NPI

New Product Introduction As part of my campaign to increase the world’s consumption of disk capacity – see yesterday’s post – I’ve developed a new capacity gobbling product. For lack of a better term I call it a video white paper. The...

The best bluesman you’ve never heard of

Meet Danny Rhodes and the Messengers For a small town in the mountains of northern Arizona, 2 hours from Phoenix, we have a great local music scene. Ms. Mojo and I are out most weekend nights dancing to live music. Our favorite bluesman is Danny Rhodes and the...