Sun’s X4500 Architecture

The biggest knock against the X4500 I’ve heard is that it is too expensive. From a storage perspective it is actually absurdly cheap compared to the 5-10x charged by the name-brand storage vendors – and for lower data integrity than the X4500/ZFS system...

ILM: RIP

It’s official: ILM (Information Lifecycle Management), the three year old storage industry marketing thrust, is in critical condition. The good people over at the StorageNetworking.org have politely raised the red flag on ILM in three reports (see Information...

Simple Laptop Disk Speedup

James Barton has has a simple tweak to improve disk performance on Windows machines. How to Check Current Transfer Mode Open Device Manager Expand IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers Double click on Primary IDE Controller or Secondary IDE Controller Go to the Advanced Settings...