Enterprise data centers must evolve, according to IDC’s Jeff Janukowicz, since the world will consume a full six times the amount of data that exists today – all within the next 5 years. In a recent ChannelCast webinar that also included CRN’s Joseph Kovar and Seagate’s Rich Vignes,…
Seagate just announced its latest generation Solid State Hybrid Drive (SSHD) – the 750GB Momentus XT – which made me pause and think about the potential implications throughout the enterprise. To be clear, the new Momentus XT is a client drive specifically designed for laptops. But with a 70%…
Back in May, I presented the blog and question, “Is MLC the future of enterprise SSD storage?” and covered the ground with a discussion of the current standards, trends, and thoughts from analysts. It became clear that Multi-Level Cell (MLC) technology used within Solid State Drives was going to…
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 [...]
At last week’s Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in San Francisco, LSI showcased an impressive demo of an 8-port 12Gb/s Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) solution that reached over 1.2 million I/O operations per second when connected to just eight Seagate Savvio 2.5-inch drives. Yes, you read it correctly: 12Gb/s SAS is coming. According to Marty Czekalski, [...]
With today’s complexity of IT data management, and the need for ever-increasing efficiency and cost reduction, tiering your data based on its use is essential. What that means is that the most frequently accessed information stays on the higher-performance Solid State Drives (SSDs) and 15K-rpm…
Coming off of last week’s post about SAS vs. SATA myths, let’s now shift gears to review an old myth about SSDs vs. HDDs. Of course Seagate makes both, so we’re especially interested in understanding and demystifying how the divergent features of SSDs and HDDs fit best into the…
With LSI’s recent announcement that the company has begun sampling 12Gb/s SAS technology to OEMs, it seemed a good time to write about SAS. Also an opportunity to clear up a couple common misconceptions. SAS, or Serial Attached SCSI, is the current interface of choice in the enterprise for…
With Seagate’s latest Constellation and Constellation ES HDD families, the drives are offered in both 6Gb SAS or 6Gb SATA versions. Both drive families are enterprise-class, so it begs the question: “Why are there models available using the desktop-oriented SATA interface in the first place?…
A few years ago when Solid State Drives (SSD) really began getting the attention of many within the storage industry, NAND memory was one topic hot on everyone’s mind, namely Single-Level Cell (SLC) vs. Multi-Level Cell (MLC). The story at the time was easy enough to understand – SLC was…
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