by Robin Harris | Friday, May 30, 2014 | Disk, Enterprise |
This is a StorageMojo summary of technical research. The effect of temperature on disk drives: shorten their life or not? Most studies say no – including a new one – but Microsoft/UVA researchers seem to disagree. Backblaze published a detailed blog post...
by Robin Harris | Friday, May 23, 2014 | Architecture, Clusters, Disk, SAN, FC, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Tired of Fibre Channel? Bored with Ethernet? Infiniband not enough? EMC has a new idea: a PCIe SAN. PCIe is part of their DSSD plan. A good question is: will customers buy it? A better question is: what is EMC talking about? EMC‘s head of product operations, Jeremy...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, May 15, 2014 | Enterprise, Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Volume shipments of 3D NAND flash could arrive in 2016, if Toshiba’s and SanDisk’s plans bear fruit. Fab 5 at their Yokkaichi campus is expected to install a 3D pilot line in 2H15. The project is funded jointly with SanDisk. Samsung started sampling 128Gb,...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, May 8, 2014 | Off-Topic |
I long ago concluded that storage is the most difficult problem in information technology because entropy is always working to destroy our data. But then I came across this from a speech given by British mathematician, computer theorist and pioneer and Bletchley Park...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, May 6, 2014 | Architecture, Backup, Cloud computing & storage |
The Glacier posts generated much discussion that revealed some non-intuitive ideas about Amazon Web Services. AWS doesn’t care about profits on Glacier. They have other reasons for offering a cheap archive service. Glacier is based on S3. They do some things,...
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