Experiencing “Drive Not Found” errors? Physical interconnect malfunctions can cause up to 68% of storage subsystem failures. SATA often reports these failures as “drive not found” errors rather than silent data corruption while the data was being transmitted. SAS hard…
Jon Toigo has a thoughtful view of the Fight for the Data Center currently underway between Cisco, IBM and others. Jon posits that the best solution of all would be an open systems mainframe model. His reasoning on the value of the mainframe is compelling. He shows evidence that the industry is inexorably returning to [...]
TechCrunchIT points to Google’s laudable sustainability efforts, including their recent Efficient Data Center Summit. I’ve written before about Google’s holistic approach to data centers that makes them the most efficient in the world, as far a I can see. As Google points out,…
SSD is a hot topic for enterprise storage, with announcements of SSD options from numerous storage vendors. Despite the hype and headlines, there is open debate in the industry whether or not SSD is ready for the enterprise. The advice from many storage experts is “look before you leap”.…
Dot Hill announced a couple of RAID arrays using 2.5″ SAS drives. Xyratex has been in the 2.5″ array business for awhile now. HP‘s also in the game. The list goes on and on. 2.5″ enterprise drives are ready for storage system prime time. These small drives are now big from a…
It seems everyone is demanding more for less these days. When it comes to surveillance, it’s all about video streaming performance. Object Video of Reston,VA says that it’s not uncommon to find customers looking at 20 cameras linked to a single display. These systems…
Data de-duplication is one of those topics that can be confusing. The technology itself is pretty straightforward, but many people are talking about it in different contexts, sometimes spun a bit to advantage their solution or approach to storage. InfoStor’s special report on de-duplication provides a fairly objective overview on the topic, penned by SNIA [...]
There’s nothing like listening to live music. While a single artist playing an acoustic song can be rewarding, the experience is heightened when there’s a band with a drummer, a bass player, a lead guitarist and some good vocals working in concert to really hit home with each member of the audience. Different strokes for different folks, they say. Like a [...]
Kessler International recently bought 100 PC disk drives in bulk on eBay. Using the forensic equivalent of dumpster diving, they were able to recover private information, including corporate financial data, from 40 of them. That’s right – 40% of the drives contained sensitive information…
If you’re looking for a safety net for your data, Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) is the way to go. As SAS moves data to and from disks or tape, it depends on a point-to-point serial protocol that uses the standard SCSI command set. While SATA has all but replaced the legacy ATA (retroactively renamed Parallel [...]
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