by Robin Harris | Thursday, September 10, 2009 | Disk, Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Flash memory is opening a second front in its war on entrenched storage technologies. So far disks have been taking the heat, but DRAM is the next target. The unannounced Sun F5100 product uses 80 48 GB flash SO-DIMMs to create a 4 TB cache appliance. Cool. But once...
by Robin Harris | Monday, August 24, 2009 | Disk |
Triple your data center’s storage capacity – without increasing power consumption or reducing performance. How? Going for the green Everyone talks about green, but in storage arrays it is the power consumption of the disks that dominates. A power-saving...
by Robin Harris | Monday, July 27, 2009 | Disk |
Western Digital today announced 2 new “mobile” 2.5′ drives. The WD Scorpio Blue 750 GB and 1 TB drives are both shipping. Here’s the official word from WD. WD Scorpio Blue 750 GB drives (model WD7500KEVT) are available now through select...
by Robin Harris | Monday, July 20, 2009 | Disk, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Ars Technica reported that Samsung has not found any buyers for its impressive 250 GB 1.8″ hard drive. Evidently Toshiba has the same problem. Is there a market for large capacity 1.8″ drives? Apple has dropped back to 120 GB drives in the iPod Classic,...
by Robin Harris | Monday, June 15, 2009 | Architecture, Disk, Future Tech |
DataSlide has come out of stealth mode with a very creative SSD replacement technology. They call it a Hard Rectangular Disk or HRD. Here’s their quick overview: DataSlide applies technology in new, patented ways to achieve unprecedented high performance 160,000...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, April 9, 2009 | Disk, SOHO/SMB |
A few weeks after NetApp shut down their low-end StoreVault product, Data Robotics introduces a low-end box that will be very popular with small and some medium sized businesses: the DroboPro. Hey, it’s even got a rack mount kit. Supporting USB, FireWire and now...
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