Flash bash: disks and DIMMs
Flash memory is opening a second front in its war on entrenched storage technologies. So far disks have been taking the heat, but DRAM is the next target. The unannounced Sun F5100 product uses 80 48 GB flash SO-DIMMs to create a 4 TB cache appliance. Cool. But once...
The Sun 4 TB flash array F5100
The 4 TB Sun F5100 Flash Array product launch is imminent. Much talked up by Andy Bechtolsheim the 1U array promises 1 million IOPS, 10 GB/sec throughput, 64 SAS channels, redundant power & cooling and SES management. Beyond the raw performance the F5110 is notable...
Cloud storage for $100 a terabyte
Imagine cloud storage that didn't cost much more than bare drives. High density storage with RAID 6 protection, reasonable bandwidth and web-friendly HTTPS access. And really, really cheap. Raw disk cost is only 5-10% of a RAID systems cost. The rest goes for...
Why did Apple drop ZFS?
With the release of Snow Leopard it is now official: no ZFS - anywhere - in Mac OS 10.6. Given that Apple went to the trouble of announcing it last year as part of Snow Leopard Server this is quite a reversal. The question is why? Many theories I wrote this up on...
Is STEC’s lead sustainable?
Chris Mellor of The Register considers whether STEC's lead in the high-performance SSD space is sustainable. When competition does arrive in the enterprise SSD market, and as STEC starts competing in the more price-sensitive server flash market, then its early golden...
WD’s new 2TB drive delivers on green promise
Triple your data center's storage capacity - without increasing power consumption or reducing performance. How? Going for the green Everyone talks about green, but in storage arrays it is the power consumption of the disks that dominates. A power-saving blade server...
Google File System v2, part 2
Bigtable to the rescue (sort of) In Part 1, Sean Quinlan, a Google engineer, related how the original GFS single master architecture became a bottleneck. But since Google controls its entire software stack from OS to apps, it could compensate by tweaking the apps and...
Google File Systems v2, part 1
A couple of years ago at the first Seattle Conference on Scalability, Google's Jeffrey Dean remarked that the company wanted 100x more scalability. Unsurprising given the rapid growth of the web. But there was more to it than that: GFS - the Google File System was...
StorageMojo in San Diego later this week
StorageMojo's Global HQ is packing up for cooler climes later this week. If your SoCal company would like some face time please either comment or email. Always interested in emerging technologies, companies or products. The StorageMojo take Avoid the crowds at...
TPC-C: comparing SSD & disk
Steve Jones of BT sent in the following, which I am publishing - with his permission - as a guest post. It has been edited and some headers added so any dodgy parts may not be his fault. Begin the guest post: SSD vs storage arrays I thought it was worth doing a very...
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