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Rorke Data & Seagate Rock the Media & Entertainment World

In the world of broadcasting and entertainment, there are several new major advances in technology driving high-end content creation which in turn is driving demand for high performance, high capacity systems with hard disk drives that support this infrastructure. Technologies like HD Video, 3D,…

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Pulsar

SSD Top Performance and Reliability for Enterprise Tier 0

 With today’s announcement of Seagate’s Pulsar SSD product, Enterprise customers now have a viable solution for I/O-intensive, high performance blade and general application server storage environments. Whether it’s I/O intensive workloads like decision support applications (e.g.…

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Seagate Cheetah 15K.7

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 able to use two Cheetah 15K.7 drives on uncompressed video in a way that required ten drives in the…

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HDTV

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.  TVs, DVRs, broadcast, DVDs, web content.  The whole thing…

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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 people forget is that much of what defines this premium label goes beyond the drive itself. Enterprise table stakes Of course Enterprise drives must have [...]

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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 storage demands. Here are 5 options to consider: 1. Tier Your Storage – Use lower cost Nearline storage, like Seagate Constellation™ drives for high capacity reference data, [...]

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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 replicate using standard utilities, with no physical changes to the drive.

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Intel

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 to our city.  This boot camp for Intel channel partners is designed for server solution architects, system…

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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 comes to technology, SSD is a rock star.  Who wouldn’t want what it offers in speed, power and size? But technology, no matter how awe-inspiring and [...]

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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 unveiled a new energy efficiency benchmark, SPC-1C/E.  The new test is an…

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