by Robin Harris | Thursday, February 1, 2007 | SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Samsung has been leading the charge for large capacity flash drives with their 32 GB announcements and their relentless cutting of flash chip prices. And it looks like their biggest competitor for 1.8″ drives will be – Samsung. The new 60 GB 1.8″...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, January 31, 2007 | Backup, SOHO/SMB |
I love the product reviews on sites like Tom’s Hardware, Ars Technica and AnandTech There is something irrationally satisfying about getting a lot of details and test results on a product that, more likely than not, I will never use. So I’ve decided to...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, January 30, 2007 | Off-Topic |
Update: A great article summarizing both the search for Jim and the ways in which Jim’s own research enabled the search over at Scientific American. Update II Some great background on how Amazon’s Mechanical Turk helped coordinate 560,000 jobs in the...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, January 30, 2007 | Clusters, Enterprise, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
Metadata data structures The basic insight of Isilon’s cluster is that they manage files on a pool of blocks. What we know as RAID levels exist on a per file basis, not per array. Unlike Google’s GFS, which only does file replication, Isilon does file...
by Robin Harris | Friday, January 26, 2007 | Clusters |
Unexpectedly, this has turned into Isilon Week here at the StorageMojo. I think everyone is excited by Isilon’s successful IPO, the first, I hope, of many for other storage startups. I’ve already commented on Isilon’s surprisingly uninformative...
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