by Robin Harris | Thursday, July 19, 2007 | Disk |
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...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, July 11, 2007 | SOHO/SMB |
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....
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, July 10, 2007 | Architecture, Clusters, Future Tech, Information Management |
An alert reader sent this in as a comment this morning. Thank you! As of Jul 10, 1:00am PDT, 10 of the talks have been published (including the Lustre and Verisign ones). Searching for “seattle conference on scalability” on google video seems to return...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, July 5, 2007 | Architecture, Clusters, Future Tech, Information Management |
The wily Googlers fooled me I thought the videos were supposed to be on YouTube – the video service they bought for $1.6 billion a few months ago. But NO! They’re on Google Video. I just figured that out. The good news: better quality on Google Video. The...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, July 5, 2007 | Architecture, Enterprise |
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...
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