by Robin Harris | Tuesday, October 23, 2012 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage |
Research (see Nightmare on DIMM street) a few years ago found that DRAM error rates were hundreds to thousands of times higher than vendors had led us believe. But what is the nature of those errors? Are they soft errors – as is commonly believed – where a...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, October 16, 2012 | Disk, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
The flooding-induced disk drive drought is over, except for some channel filling, but the last year’s drive vendor profitability may be the last good news they see for years. Trends are conspiring against disk drive vendors. 1st, worldwide PC sales are slowing...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, September 26, 2012 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage |
Storage is cheap and getting cheaper. But at scale it will never be free. At scale – today, petabytes; in a decade, dozenss of petabytes – even a few per cent savings amounts to real dollars. Strategies that made sense 10 years – such as triple...
by Robin Harris | Monday, September 17, 2012 | Off-Topic |
The StorageMojo analyst team saddled up and left the ranges of northern Arizona for the wilds of Silicon Valley. Look for a bowlegged crew in Wrangler jeans. I will be joining the series of roundtable discussions organized by Stephen Foskett. I don’t really know...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, September 12, 2012 | Off-Topic |
I’ve been a fan of ZFS from its early days and I’m a Mac user who has experienced data corruption thanks to its antiquated HFS+ file system. Thus I’m pleased to see that Greenbytes is releasing ZFS for Mac. A post on ZDNet explains the details: Now...
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