Seagate’s head-settling time?

by | Tuesday, May 13, 2008 | Off-Topic | 2 comments

First it was the bogus “national security” argument against a Chinese buy-out of Seagate. Now it’s suing STEC over solid state drives (SSD). Has William Watkins, Seagate’s CEO, jumped the shark? STEC said, per legal SOP, that the suit was...

StorageMojo in Chicago

by | Saturday, May 10, 2008 | Off-Topic | 1 comment

I’m spending a couple of days R&R in Chicago. Caught Shemikia Copeland at Buddy Guy’s last night. Cruised the Chicago river this morning. Hope to hit another couple of blues clubs tonight. Then back to the mountains of northern Arizona. Moderation has...

NAND – an engineer’s perspective

by | Saturday, May 10, 2008 | Off-Topic | 0 comments

The post on on notebook flash drives [see Notebook flash SSD market: fantasy or mirage?] generated many comments. Part of what makes it hard to discuss flash is the dearth of information about how it works. My investigation of flash issues has been helped along by...

StorageMojo: hacked!

by | Tuesday, May 6, 2008 | Off-Topic | 8 comments

Always learning This week’s learning: a hacked web site. There’s been a lot of that going around. Writing has taken a back seat to fixing the problem. It took a while to grok how deeply StorageMojo had been hacked. First I got a note from my hosting...

NAB Shorts: MatrixStore

by | Friday, May 2, 2008 | Off-Topic | 0 comments

Spent some time with Nick Pearce, a co-founder of Object Matrix, a UK-based software startup supporting commodity-based archiving. Their MatrixStore product clusters off-the-shelf servers and storage to create a secure disk based archive. MatrixStore runs out of the...