Listening to CDs
My wireless router croaked last week I've been writing a little less than usual lately (though nobody has complained) due to a home network failure. And printserver failure. And AirTunes failure. Just one box failed though My trusty little Airport Express, a white box...
Big Blue Responds
Or at least an IBM'er responds. Here's the link from Tony Pearson. Thanks, Tony. I'm currently enjoying a post-prandial Ouzo, so I'll hold off on commenting. And your comments are welcome. Ouzo or not.
Disk Vendors Dig 10 Petabyte Hole; Throw Selves In
Optics? We don't need no stinkin' optics. Computerworld reported Friday that drive vendors have very little to say about their MTBF specs. (BTW, link points to a more easily read version, one that also links to StorageMojo, which is how I found out about it.) Drive...
Disintermediation of Dead Tree Storage: Google Books Project
Tech support for books So you are an experienced reader of scrolls and someone hands you a book. How do you figure it out? That's the premise of this Norwegian TV skit (subtitles provided). Funny. Watching that reminded me of a recent New Yorker article about the...
EMC: “These Aren’t The Droids You’re Looking For”
You can go about your business Chuck Hollis of EMC took the challenge to respond to the Open Letter about the big differences between drive life specs and what research on 200,000 drives found (see Everything You Know About Disks Is Wrong and Google's Disk Failure...
ZFS On Mac: Easier Than You Thought
Not so easy I could do it, though ZFS is the übercool Solaris file system cum volume manager cum software RAID now being ported to Apple's Leopard (see ZFS On Mac: Now All But Official and ZFS: Threat or Menace?. Lots of skepticism from people who can't imagine...
NetApp Weighs In On Disks
As promised in the Open Letter to Seagate, Hitachi, EMC, IBM, NetApp, HP and Sun, StorageMojo is giving this space to NetApp to respond to Everything You Know About Disks Is Wrong and Google's Disk Failure Experience. Props to NetApp for being quick off the mark in...
Flash Tipping Point Next Year
The Financial Times published an article that predicts Prices of flash memory chips have plunged to a critical “tipping-point†that could see them replacing hard discs as the storage technology of choice on laptop computers within two years. Since everyone seems...
Open Letter to Seagate, Hitachi GST, EMC, HP, NetApp, IBM and Sun
Earlier this week StorageMojo published summaries of two papers from the USENIX FAST '07 conference, Google's Disk Failure Experience and Everything You Know About Disks Is Wrong. I also published a briefer summary on Computerworld.com. The credibility of the industry...
Inside Skinny On Isilon
Already did the outside skinny I talked to Sujal Patel, founder and CTO of Isilon, last week to learn more about Isilon. As I'd mentioned in my posts on the company I was surprised that there wasn't more technical information about the products on their website. On...
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