NAND – an engineer’s perspective, pt zwei
Herewith continues NAND - an engineer's perspective. Any you thought marketing guys were wordy! The quoted bits are from the earlier StorageMojo post Notebook flash SSD market: fantasy or mirage?. Teil eins ist hier. Begin part zwei . . . tested application...
StorageMojo in Chicago
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 been a bit...
NAND – an engineer’s perspective
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!
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 company -...
NAB Shorts: MatrixStore
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...
The value of guaranteed uptime
What, if any, is the value of multi-year storage uptime? Xiotech and Atrato promise 5 and 3 year uninterrupted service on their new arrays. Now it is time to ask, as some commenters have, so what? After all, enterprise data centers are already well-equipped to deal...
HGST getting ready to rumble
I got quoted in Byte & Switch today about Hitachi Global Storage Technology and the new CIO. HGST has been a money pit for Hitachi since they bought the IBM disk operation. They question is: are they ready to do something about it? The answer is yes. An informant...
Notebook flash SSD market: fantasy or mirage?
Fresh off the HD-DVD fiasco, Toshiba execs are stepping up to pursue another expensive flop: notebook SSDs. Memo to Toshiba: people won't pay huge SSD premiums for nothing. And almost nothing is what flash SSDs provide today - and for the foreseeable future. Please...
NAB shorts: Omneon Video Networks
A video networking company in StorageMojo? Omneon isn't new to StorageMojo. Their price list has been on price list page since January 2007. Their booth was about 50 yards from Isilon's and EMC's and it was a madhouse each time I walked by. Partly that was because...
NAB shorts: Isilon
Isilon at NAB Stopped by the Isilon booth a couple of times. Traffic seemed steady. Isilon held their meetings away from the booth, so it didn't have the level of activity of, say, Omneon's booth. NAB is their biggest show of the year and the market where they have...
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