by Robin Harris | Thursday, February 22, 2007 | Enterprise |
Earlier this week StorageMojo published summaries of two papers from the USENIX FAST ’07 conference, Google’s Disk Failure Experience and Everything You Know About Disks Is Wrong. I also published a briefer summary on Computerworld.com. The credibility of...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, February 20, 2007 | Clusters, Enterprise |
Update II: NetApp has responded. I’m hoping other vendors will as well. Which do you believe? Costly FC and SCSI drives are more reliable than cheap SATA drives. RAID 5 is safe because the odds of two drives failing in the same RAID set are so low. After infant...
by Robin Harris | Monday, February 19, 2007 | Clusters, Enterprise, SOHO/SMB |
Google released a fascinating research paper titled Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population (pdf) at this years File and Storage Technologies (FAST ’07) conference. Google collected data on a population of 100,000 disk drives, analyzed it, and wrote it up...
by Robin Harris | Friday, February 16, 2007 | Clusters, Enterprise, SAN, FC |
There’s always a first time Sometimes it is great and sometimes, not so great. Advice to the SAN-lorn I’m asking StorageMojo.com readers to help this gentleman with his first SAN. I’ll kick off with my take after his letter. He didn’t ask to be...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, February 14, 2007 | Clusters, Enterprise |
IT infrastructure made simple Data is like water. CPUs are the pumps. Networks are the pipes. And storage devices are the pools. Like any system, the components are related: changes in one usually leads to changes in the others. The coming wave Fast, cheap processors,...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, February 7, 2007 | Clusters, Enterprise |
Imagine, if you will, a profitable and growing industry. Since it is profitable and growing, the key industry players keep investing, producing new variants to keep buyers interested. Buyers are interested, so sales keep rising. And then one day demand flattens and...
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