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 | Wednesday, January 31, 2007 | Backup, SOHO/SMB |
I love the product reviews on sites like Tom’s Hardware, Ars Technica and AnandTech There is something irrationally satisfying about getting a lot of details and test results on a product that, more likely than not, I will never use. So I’ve decided to...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, January 17, 2007 | SOHO/SMB |
One of the wonderful things about the storage industry is how rapidly prices fall and new technologies become available to more people. What is less wonderful is that as this sophisticated technology moves down market, it keeps the same terminology and mindset from...
by Robin Harris | Sunday, December 17, 2006 | Future Tech, SOHO/SMB |
Update: It is official. See here. Then come back and read the rest of this post. Thanks to alert reader Oskar for the tip. French website Mac4Ever reports – thanks to Babelfish translation: . . . the few innovations of Leopard, one read these last months,...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, December 14, 2006 | Backup, SOHO/SMB |
Remote PC backup made easy Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal reviews (subscription required, I believe) two remote PC backup services, Carbonite and Mozy, this morning. Mozy: now they have something I wrote briefly about Berkeley Data Systems, parent of Mozy,...
by Robin Harris | Monday, October 23, 2006 | Future Tech, SAN, FC, SOHO/SMB |
The good people at Texas Memory Systems read StorageMojo.com and at my invitation offered this response to my post An SSD For The Rest Of Us. I think they did a pretty good job of laying out the, IMHO, historically under-appreciated RAM SSD. Naturally I have a couple...
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