Why aren’t disk reads more reliable?

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...

Who makes the best consumer disk drives?

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....

How Yahoo can beat Google

Google has pummeled Yahoo into near-obscurity: the early search leader – the Google of the 1990’s – Yahoo’s market cap is a fraction of GOOG’s while their search share is a distant second. It is easy to forget that Yahoo is actually a...