Tag Archives: performance

Two Cheetah 15K.7 drives do the work of ten

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 [....]

All 6Gb/s SAS, all the time

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It’s like HDTV. 

First we had HD televisions without any content.  Then we had some HD broadcasts, and some HD DVDs in the stores.

Then – inflection point! – all the pieces were there.  [....]

Labeling a hard drive “Enterprise” does not make it so

Fast hard drives are not always Enterprise drives, just as high capacity drives can be Enterprise drives under the right circumstances.

What makes a drive an Enterprise drive?

What some [....]

Storage Budgeting Tips during Tough Times

Despite the difficult economic times, storage needs keep growing. IT managers are looking for ways to optimize the investments they must make to keep up with these ever-increasing [....]

The fastest gaming drive alive: Barracuda 7200

Artiom at TechWare labs has a simple hack that turbo-charges a Barracuda 7200 1.5 TB drive for crazy fast performance. 

While I don’t usually promote hacks,this was pretty interesting. It’s easy to [....]

A Day in the life of a Server

Intel has a great way of getting new technology in the hands of those who need it. I recently attended one of the Intel TST (Technical Solutions Trainings) that made it’s way [....]

The SSD conundrum: technology vs. product

The Storage Advisor at Adaptec summarizes the conundrum the SSD market faces today. SSD is a great technology, but not yet a mature product.

There’s a huge difference between these two things. When it [....]

Storage energy efficiency goes legit: Storage Performance Council’s SPC-1C/E benchmark

Another sign of the rising importance of power consumption in storage: IT is getting a high-octane tool to objectively assess the energy efficiency of storage systems and components. 

The Storage Performance Council has [....]

Everything you wanted to know about Seagate enterprise drives – but not from Seagate

The guys over at sacklun.ch must’ve spend a month spinning Seagate drives to generate this thoughtful and incredibly thorough review.  Their focus was documenting the difference between 2.5″ and 3.5″ [....]

For HP servers, what a difference a drive makes!

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 [....]