by Robin Harris | Tuesday, February 26, 2008 | Architecture, Disk |
After last year’s publication of the Google and CMU papers on the much-higher-than-expected annual failure rates of disk drives, StorageMojo challenged vendors to respond. I said The industry has an excellent opportunity to move to greater transparency with...
by Robin Harris | Sunday, February 24, 2008 | Architecture, Disk, Enterprise |
It’s the disks, right? We’ve heard much about disk failures – as recently as last week as well as last year’s reports from Google and CMU. But what about the rest of the system? In a FAST ’08 paper to be presented this week – Are...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, February 19, 2008 | Disk, SAN, FC |
StorageMojo reported last June 19th a rumor that Apple’s Xserve RAID would bite the dust. And now, exactly 8 months later, they’ve pulled the plug. I saw a wall of Xserves and Xserve RAIDs at NAB last year and they were, without a doubt, the prettiest...
by Robin Harris | Monday, February 18, 2008 | Disk, Enterprise |
Last year’s Google and CMU papers on disk failure rates (see Everything you know about disks is wrong and Google’s Disk Failure Experience) made the points that a) annual disk failure rates are significantly higher than manufacturers admit and b) that...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, February 14, 2008 | Disk, Future Tech |
The magnetic spots in disk storage are already smaller than semiconductor feature sizes, and patterned media and heat-assisted recording will give us 10 TB 2.5″ disks in the next decade. But then what? Optical protein-based quantum dots could be the answer....
by Robin Harris | Monday, January 14, 2008 | Disk, Enterprise, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
About time I’m in Silicon Valley for a few days. So I’ll keep this brief. EMC is pulling out the stops. First Hulk/Maui clusters and now putting flash SSDs in the Symm. They are positioning it as technology leadership, which it isn’t, but it is...
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