by Robin Harris | Wednesday, October 31, 2007 | Security & Public Policy |
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...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, October 30, 2007 | SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
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...
by Robin Harris | Monday, October 29, 2007 | Enterprise, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
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...
by Robin Harris | Monday, October 29, 2007 | Clusters, Enterprise, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
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...
by Robin Harris | Sunday, October 28, 2007 | Off-Topic |
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...
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