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Comment on Seagate speaks out on SSDs by datenlöschung

datenlöschung — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:06:51 +0000

They’re going to have about the same 0.5 access time.

Comment on Data center nightmare captured on video by Data Center Disaster « An IT View

Data Center Disaster « An IT View — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:17:23 +0000

[...] link to one of my own companies blogs because the post and embedded YouTube video about a data center disaster needs to be further spread. I don’t know if this is an old or new incident (didn’t [...]

Comment on Data center nightmare captured on video by Mukul Kumar

Mukul Kumar — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:55:04 +0000

Awesome! Love it.

Comment on Seagate Cheetah 15K.7: a coping strategy for IT by The Storage Effect » A video in your hand = several videos in a server

The Storage Effect » A video in your hand = several videos in a server — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:45:19 +0000

[...] family are getting more and more popular. Even the highest performance drives like the Seagate Cheetah and Savvio drives are approaching theterabyte [...]

Comment on Disk drives prove to be greener than SSDs in servers by Pete Steege

Pete Steege — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 12:58:05 +0000

Seagate’s first SSD is scheduled to come out later in 2009. Stay tuned!

Comment on Disk drives prove to be greener than SSDs in servers by TF

TF — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 08:02:33 +0000

Great article Pete. When will Seagate come out with a SSD? There are literally a dozen different SSD brands out there and I’m surprised seagate has not put out one yet.

Comment on Constellation is the missing link for 2.5″ enterprise storage by Pete Steege

Pete Steege — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:38:18 +0000

Could happen I guess. Two things are different this time around:
1. OEMs have tried and thus far mostly failed in using 2.5″ notebook-class drives for the enterprise.
2. There is an enterprise-ready 2.5″ 7200 rpm drive ready to go for this market. Early on, there was no enterprise-class 3.5″ 7200 rpm drive, so desktop-class drives were brought in. Today most serious 7200 rpm enterprise applications use enterprise versions of that class of drive.

Comment on Constellation is the missing link for 2.5″ enterprise storage by Robin Harris

Robin Harris — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 01:49:36 +0000

Pete, lots of folks said that the enterprise would never use “consumer” drives – but they are in wide use today. I suspect that 2.5″ notebook drives will see a similar adoption once the form factor is widely accepted by enterprise customers.

Robin

Comment on The fastest gaming drive alive: Barracuda 7200 by Traciatim

Traciatim — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:05:03 +0000

It’s stupid, you may as well just partition the drive and stick your movies on the extra 1.2GB, it results in the same thing and doesn’t limit you to 20% of your drive.

Comment on A missed opportunity: PC energy use by Poh Soon Chong

Poh Soon Chong — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:49:17 +0000

I’m not an IT manager but I joined an effort to promote power management but was never able to get the tool working properly.

I experienced a number of times when my attempts to remote boot the PC failed after it went into hibernation mode. I had to drive back to office to turn the PC on manually. After repeated experiences, I gave up and just left my PC on.

IT has to provide a way for the OS and the PC to work together so that remote boot can be performed painlessly and consistently before users will start turning on the power management feature.