Backup Cheatsheet: Backing Up and Letting Go
Backup Paranoia and Letting Go Issues of personal backup loom large this morning. I spent some time reading up on personal backup in light of my personal concerns. Here is the official StorageMojo.com cheat sheet on personal and SOHO backup. How Much Data Do You...
Disaster Tolerance Gets Up Close and Personal
It's been dry in Northern Arizona this year - only about a quarter of the normal rainfall. The fire chief said last week that the moisture content of local trees is less than that of kiln-dried lumber. Very dry. l took the header picture above Sunday afternoon of a...
Reprint “Jonathan Livingston Seagull” Every 5 Years?
Imagine we had to reprint all the world's books every 5 years to preserve them. Would we? Could we? That is the flip side of Quick Disk Erase (the previous post): data preservation. Storage pros focus on device availability and redundancy, but these are the short term...
Quick Disk Erase: Harder Than You Think
How Hard? After a US spy plane was forced to land in China and the plane's disks gave up military secrets, researchers worked to figure out how to quickly and securely erase the disk. Even when the people snooping it had unlimited time and money. Crushing, drilling or...
Ray Ozzie’s Question: Are You Ready?
What about the data center investments of Yahoo, Google and Microsoft? Microsoft has commited to spend over $2.5B on capital and acquisitions - much of it to compete with Google. Yahoo will also likely spend about $1B just on computers and equipment. Google will spend...
Intel RAID Inside
Free RAID From Intel Intel's storage group has mystified StorageMojo.com for some time. Yet there is proof that Intel does apply a tiny part of its mighty R&D and manufacturing Mojo to storage: Intel® Matrix Storage Technology With a 2nd [external, it seems -ed.]...
White Box Arrays Are Here. w00t!
White Box Arrays (WBA) today remind me of the early days of personal computing before Apple, Radio Shack and Commodore built the first appliance computers. People bought bare PC boards and a bag of components to build their own computers. WBA's aren't nearly as tough...
Google’s 450,000 Processor Supercomputer
Regular readers are well versed on Google's GFS file system. This article from the International Herald Tribune gives an update on their new Dalles, Oregon datacenter with dual four story cooling towers. Besides cheap hydro power and great windsurfing, IHT reports...
ZFS: Now With More Mojo
The ZFS team has been busy. Just last week they finished adding: Hot spares Clone swap Double parity RAID-Z - or what we might call RAID-6 variable-width stripes And In Other News News to me: Eric Schrock is one of the ZFS engineers. Eric's father, MIT professor...
Storage Revolution & Aperi Are Dead. w00t!
Now Let's Move On And Do Something Useful Not that it wouldn't be useful if someone were doing it. It just isn't happening. Aperi seems to have sunk without a trace, or at least a website, leaving behind just a few news stories. Storage Revolution is only slightly...
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