by Robin Harris | Wednesday, June 14, 2006 | Enterprise, Future Tech |
Regular readers are well versed on Google’s GFS file system. This article from the International Herald Tribune gives an update on their new Dalles, Oregon datacenter with dual four story cooling towers. Besides cheap hydro power and great windsurfing, IHT...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, June 14, 2006 | Enterprise, Future Tech |
The ZFS team has been busy. Just last week they finished adding: Hot spares Clone swap Double parity RAID-Z – or what we might call RAID-6 variable-width stripes And In Other News News to me: Eric Schrock is one of the ZFS engineers. Eric’s father, MIT...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, June 13, 2006 | Future Tech, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
Now Let’s Move On And Do Something Useful Not that it wouldn’t be useful if someone were doing it. It just isn’t happening. Aperi seems to have sunk without a trace, or at least a website, leaving behind just a few news stories. Storage Revolution is...
by Robin Harris | Sunday, June 11, 2006 | Future Tech, NAS, IP, iSCSI, SOHO/SMB |
iSCSI Is The Future Storage arrays are no longer magic and mystery. As Howard Marks explains in detail it isn’t very difficult to build multi-terabyte iSCSI arrays out of standard servers, adapters and software. And do it for less than $2/GB using high...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, June 8, 2006 | Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Over at Forbes, Seagate Technology Chief Executive William Watkins talks about the future of disk drive capacities and pricing. The money quote: My best guess is that you will get a 40 gigabyte drive in 2010 for $80 on flash. I think the same device in a one-inch hard...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, June 6, 2006 | Enterprise, Future Tech |
As promised, Martin Green has provided more info on Cnet’s Haystack storage system. Hardly a word about the software, which is where the magic is, but this quote should give the big iron vendors a little shiver. BSU Haystack consists of many Basic Storage Units...
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