by Robin Harris | Wednesday, April 19, 2006 | Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
With Samsung’s announcement of a 32GB hard drive replacement using flash memory (like that in USB thumb drives) instead of rotating disks, the SSD is set to conquer a new market: the ultra-portable laptop. It is about time. I owned and daily used for over five...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, April 18, 2006 | Enterprise, Future Tech, Security & Public Policy, SOHO/SMB |
Even though disk storage gets about 5-10% cheaper every quarter, people still hate paying for it. A new CPU goes faster, a new display is brighter and/or bigger, but new storage just sits there until we fill it up. For that reason, the idea of RAID 5 (see the...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, April 12, 2006 | Future Tech, SOHO/SMB |
Storage is the last bastion of overpriced, underperforming hardware. In networks, processors and servers the radical economics of semiconductors has created a lean and mean industry prospering on margins less than half of what the old-line — and now mostly dead...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, April 6, 2006 | Backup, Enterprise, Future Tech, NAS, IP, iSCSI, Security & Public Policy, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Well, after getting /.’d yesterday this is bound to be an anti-climax. But I scoured the exhibition show floor the coolest products at SNW last night and found three contenders. The first is Wasabi Systems the maker of a small (~1″x 3″) flash drive...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, March 29, 2006 | Backup, Future Tech, SOHO/SMB |
Lack of offsite storage of critical business data is one of the biggest failings of small businesses. I know a photographer, graphic designer and video producer whose studio, with its complement of Mac and PC computer gear, was wiped out in a fire. He has insurance to...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, March 29, 2006 | Future Tech |
Holographic storage promises immense storage densities and capacities with fast access times. InPhase, according to VNUnet has demonstrated over 500GB of capacity per square inch. InPhase is claiming they will ship drives with removable holographic disks with 300GB...
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