by Robin Harris | Tuesday, February 20, 2007 | Clusters, Enterprise |
Update II: NetApp has responded. I’m hoping other vendors will as well. Which do you believe? Costly FC and SCSI drives are more reliable than cheap SATA drives. RAID 5 is safe because the odds of two drives failing in the same RAID set are so low. After infant...
by Robin Harris | Monday, February 19, 2007 | Clusters, Enterprise, SOHO/SMB |
Google released a fascinating research paper titled Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population (pdf) at this years File and Storage Technologies (FAST ’07) conference. Google collected data on a population of 100,000 disk drives, analyzed it, and wrote it up...
by Robin Harris | Saturday, February 17, 2007 | Price Lists |
It may be a three-day weekend for most Americans, but nobody told my oppressed minions. Bwa-ha-ha-ha! Updated 3Par, EMC and Pillar Data Price Lists Now Online Just click on Price Lists to see the complete selection of tasty, fat-free and affordably priced StorageMojo...
by Robin Harris | Friday, February 16, 2007 | Clusters, Enterprise, SAN, FC |
There’s always a first time Sometimes it is great and sometimes, not so great. Advice to the SAN-lorn I’m asking StorageMojo.com readers to help this gentleman with his first SAN. I’ll kick off with my take after his letter. He didn’t ask to be...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, February 15, 2007 | Security & Public Policy |
The always thoughtful and incisive Bruce Schneier is out with his latest CRYPTO-GRAM. He’s got an interesting take on a government-mandated $11 billion personal storage program: Real-ID. No debate, no vote People in other countries – yes, there are...
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