The fall 2011 Storage Networking World (SNW) show is just around the corner and will be held next week at the JW Marriott Grande Lakes in Orlando, Florida. SNW is the world’s largest storage, data center, and IT infrastructure conference and brings together top information from information technology executives, leading product and service providers, and [...]
Last time I wrote about the enormous and growing demand of digital storage consumption worldwide. This week, let’s cover the technology improvements and developments of the hard disk drive (HDD) and note some of the tremendous changes made over the past 50+ years. And in the near future of this…
The history of the disk drive industry is a long series of relentless “firsts”. The latest Seagate Cheetah 15k drive stands out as a particularly impressive milestone. Barefeats was able to use two Cheetah 15K.7 drives on uncompressed video in a way that required ten drives in the…
Benchmarkreviews.com has a lot to say about the Seagate Cheetah 15K.7 – - twelve web pages worth. In sum, they were very impressed. The Cheetah 15K.7 drive scored 8.75 out of 10 points and was given the Benchmark Reviews Silver Tachometer Award. Some highlights: “demonstrated a…
As I was perusing some HP server benchmarks recently, I was struck by how integral disk drives are to server performance – and not just IOPS. Disk drives are a quiet but essential part of what makes a server fast, energy efficient or just do whatever it was born to do. Take for example…
Whether its hard disks or fast cars, when it comes to speed, it’s all about revolutions per minute or RPM. Critically important (to the tune of $3M) to Helio Castroneves, 2009 winner of the Indy 500 this past weekend, RPM represents the number of full rotations completed in one minute around a…
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