by Robin Harris | Wednesday, September 12, 2007 | Disk, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Not so far Flash drives have been rocketing up the hype cycle for the last year, helped along by credulous gadget sites and misleading performance numbers. But the free ride is coming to an end. Over on Storage Bits (see Flash gets a fight from disks and Hybrid...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, September 11, 2007 | Disk |
Tired of your slow notebook burner? Want to rip a lot of CDs – as I have in the last week? Or maybe you’ve decided that, really and truly, you are going to get serious about backing up important data. Adding an external burner – especially for...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, August 29, 2007 | Disk, Future Tech |
Ever since the HAL 9000 was decommissioned by pulling out its clear plastic storage modules in Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey every storage geek has been jonesing for 3D storage. Holographic, multi-layer, whatever. I want capacity and I want it now!...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, July 19, 2007 | Disk |
Over on Storage Bits I’ve ignited quite a bit of controversy with the post Why RAID 5 stops working in 2009. My point in that post is that as SATA disk drive capacity continues to increase, and the unrecoverable read error (URE) rate remains constant, the time...
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