November 16, 2009 – 9:26 am
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 [....]
By Pete Steege
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Posted in 10K/15K RPM, Products, reviews
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Also tagged $ per GB, 15K, 15k rpm, 15K.7, 600 GB, 600GB, Barefeats, best, capacity, Cheetah, Cheetah 15K, gigabyte, Kryder's Law, Moore's Law, performance, price, review, sata, TweakTown
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October 30, 2009 – 11:07 am
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. [....]
By Pete Steege
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Posted in 10K/15K RPM, 7200 rpm, Products, Servers
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Also tagged 6Gb/s SAS, 6Gb/sec SAS, analogy, Blockbuster, Cheetah 15K, constellation, Constellation ES, end-to-end, HDTV, inflection point, infrastructure, lsi, performance, savvio, Savvio 10K, Savvio 15K, Seagate, Supermicro
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September 29, 2009 – 7:25 am
By Pete Steege
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Posted in 10K/15K RPM, Products
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Also tagged Barracuda XT, Chris Mellor, constellation, customer, define, definition, enterprise, expectations, FC, firmware, high capacity, performance, reliability, requirements, Seagate, The Register, WD
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August 26, 2009 – 1:04 pm
Supermicro has launched a series of SAS 6G-ready server components called Building Block Solutions that have all the latest shtuff:
Onboard 6 Gb/s SAS technology
1U, 2U, 3U and 4U rackmount, tower [....]
By Pete Steege
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Posted in Uncategorized
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Also tagged 6 Gb/s, 6 Gig, Building Block, constellation, disk drives, rackmount, SAS 2.0, savvio, Savvio 10K, Savvio 15K, Seagate, server, six-gig, Supermicro, tower
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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 [....]
By Barbara Craig
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Posted in Uncategorized
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Also tagged 2.5", cloud storage, constellation, cost savings, data center, Data Reduction, disk drive, efficiency, energy efficiency, enterprise, HP, low power, performance, sata, savvio, Seagate, SearchStorage, Servers, storage, Storage Provisioning, tiered storage, virtualization
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Robin Harris talks about capacity growth in 2.5″ notebook drives, and wonders what it portends for the enterprise. No doubt that 1 TB ‘mobile’ drives, available from Seagate later this quarter, are [....]
By Pete Steege
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Posted in 7200 rpm, Products, SAS, Trends, sata
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Also tagged 1 TB, 2.5", 500GB, constellation, disk drive, enterprise, future, missing link, mobile, Robin Harris, sata, Seagate, storage, StorageMojo, WD
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Beth Pariseau reported on two big storage announcements from HP:
HP will move its entire storage line to six Gbps small form factor SAS, starting with the D2000 in the fall. That’s two valuable transitions in [....]
By Pete Steege
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Posted in 10K/15K RPM, 7200 rpm, Companies, SAS, Servers, Storage Systems
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Also tagged 10K, 15K, 2.5", 3.5", 6 Gb, 6 Gb/sec, 6 Gpbs, 7200 rpm, Beth Pariseau, constellation, D2000, FC, HP, Seagate, SearchStorage, Servers, six-gig, Storage Systems, StorageWorks, tiered storage
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Not so long ago the future of storage device interfaces was considered to be a three-way race. Forecasts projected about 30% share for FC, SAS and SATA.
The [....]
By Pete Steege
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Posted in 10K/15K RPM, Fibre Channel, SAS, Trends
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Also tagged 15K, 15K.7, 6 Gb, available, Cheetah, constellation, disk drive, Fibre Channel, gigabyte, high capacity, IDC, InfoStor, most efficient, release, SAS 2.0, sata, Seagate, Serial Attached SCSI
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Dell’s new PowerVault® MD1120 storage array is built for efficiency! Providing up to 12 TB of storage in a single 2U enclosure, it uses the new Seagate Constellation™ [....]
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 [....]
By Pete Steege
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Posted in 10K/15K RPM, Products, SAS, reviews
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Also tagged 10K, benchmark, energy, energy efficiency, EXP-12S, ibm, performance, savvio, Seagate, SPC, SPC-1, spc-1c, SPC-1C/E, Storage Performance Council, test
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