Everything You Know About Disks Is Wrong
Update II: NetApp has responded. I'm hoping other vendors will as well. Which do you believe? Costly FC and SCSI drives are more reliable than cheap SATA drives. RAID 5 is safe because the odds of two drives failing in the same RAID set are so low. After infant...
Google’s Disk Failure Experience
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...
Big Iron Day At StorageMojo
It may be a three-day weekend for most Americans, but nobody told my oppressed minions. Bwa-ha-ha-ha! Updated 3Par, EMC and Pillar Data Price Lists Now Online Just click on Price Lists to see the complete selection of tasty, fat-free and affordably priced StorageMojo...
Dear Uncle StorageMojo
There's always a first time Sometimes it is great and sometimes, not so great. Advice to the SAN-lorn I'm asking StorageMojo.com readers to help this gentleman with his first SAN. I'll kick off with my take after his letter. He didn't ask to be anonymous, but out of...
Real-ID – Fake Security
The always thoughtful and incisive Bruce Schneier is out with his latest CRYPTO-GRAM. He's got an interesting take on a government-mandated $11 billion personal storage program: Real-ID. No debate, no vote People in other countries - yes, there are Americans who know...
Pumps, Pipes & Pools
IT infrastructure made simple Data is like water. CPUs are the pumps. Networks are the pipes. And storage devices are the pools. Like any system, the components are related: changes in one usually leads to changes in the others. The coming wave Fast, cheap processors,...
Cool Data, Cold Cache
Geeky computer guy that I am, I have my machine instrumented with programs (Mac users: MenuMeters) that tell me all kinds of useless information. Network usage, memory usage, CPU load and, of course, disk activity. Mostly all this stuff just tells me that the machine...
Updated NetApp Price List Now Online
Want to compare ONTAP GX pricing to Isilon's IQ6000? Be my guest. Just click on Price Lists in the nav bar above and knock yourself out.
Life and Death Competitive Analysis
In all humility, I'm the best competitive analyst I've ever met. I'm sure there are people who are better than me, but I've never met them, so . . . . For example, despite some wobbling, I called ZFS on Mac months before anyone else I'm aware of did. But this isn't...
Isilon #1 Supplier of Storage Clusters
A reader piqued my curiosity I got a comment today from a gentleman named Kevin Stay on an the Isilon's Q4 Results. Kevin was a little miffed with me. He wrote: "Isilon is validating the storage cluster market" ??? They are a tiny as yet unprofitable startup with zero...
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