by Robin Harris | Wednesday, August 18, 2010 | SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
I’m in Silicon Valley at the Flash Memory Summit. The big news so far: Intel and Micron announced they are sampling an 8 GB, 3 bit-per-cell (3bpc) NAND flash. Commercial availability is expected in Q4, but don’t be surprised if that date slips. Process...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, August 17, 2010 | SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
In Silicon Valley for this week’s Flash Memory Summit. Looking forward to meeting flash heavies from Intel, Micron and some startups. Flash’s impact on architecture is entering a new phase. On the consumer side shipping 3-bit MLC will drive cost down and...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, August 5, 2010 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Future Tech |
Concall today with Bryan Cantrill, the smart guy behind Dtrace. Dtrace was the engine behind Sun’s Oracle’s Fishworks server and application monitor. Dtrace has also been incorporated into OS X. Bryan left Oracle last week and started Monday at Joyent the...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, August 4, 2010 | Backup, SOHO/SMB |
This came in over the transom from a semiconductor engineer. He’s wants home archive storage and is wondering why no one seems to sell it. I’ve been grappling with the same issue. Here’s an edited-for-length excerpt from his letter: I use RAID server...
by Robin Harris | Monday, July 26, 2010 | Architecture, Enterprise |
A commenter recently asked Archivas was focused on archive, do you expect the new solution to sustain performance for primary storage as well? Which is a good question, if you know what “primary” means. Do we? Tiers of a clown 10 years ago we all agreed on...
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