November 5, 2009 – 11:20 am
In 1980, many said that IBM was missing the boat in the nascent personal computing market. The Apple II was selling like hotcakes. Even Radio Shack was beating them with the [....]
By Pete Steege
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Posted in SSD
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Also tagged analyst, Apple II, Bob Merritt, competitor, Convergent Semiconductors, Flash, growth, history, IBM PC, JIT, just in time, late to market, personal computer, solid state storage, solid-state, solid-state drives, SSD, SSS, storage, Trends, TRS-80
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October 30, 2009 – 2:26 pm
Reducing power consumption in the data center has moved from a nice-to-have to a necessity. No surprise that a ‘green’ drive sounds appealing for servers and storage systems.
Drive manufacturers have [....]
By Pete Steege
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Posted in Green IT, Products, Uncategorized
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Also tagged 2 TB, 2TB, business critical, Caviar, constellation, Constellation ES, green, nearline, powerchoice, PowerTrim, RE-GP, WD, western digital
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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, SAS, savvio, Savvio 10K, Savvio 15K, Supermicro
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October 28, 2009 – 1:58 pm
SSDs are making their way into the market as Seagate, the storage leader began shipping SSDs last month to enterprise OEM customers who are reporting favorable early results with [....]
October 28, 2009 – 10:05 am
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 [....]
By Pete Steege
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Posted in 10K/15K RPM, Products, reviews
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Also tagged #1, 15k rpm, 1st, 3.5", Benchmark Reviews, best, Cheetah, Cheetah 15K.7, disk drive, dominant, enterprise, hard drive, review, Silver Tachometer
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October 1, 2009 – 12:52 pm
TechGadgets created an arresting visual image in my mind as they described the problem being solved by Seagate’s new self-encrypting enterprise drives:
“There isn’t an organization, large or small, [....]
By Pete Steege
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Posted in Security
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Also tagged Cheetah, constellation, disk drive, fde, hard drive, lsi, MegaRAID, SafeStore, savvio, SED, self-encrypting drive
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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, SAS, The Register, WD
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September 23, 2009 – 2:22 pm
Seagate took a big step in the history of disk drives yesterday, although it may take a while for it to be seen as such.
Seagate announced the availability [....]
September 15, 2009 – 8:38 am
Here’s a favorite post from my other blog Storage Effect:
Source: creditloan.com
A fellow employee once asked me, “Why isn’t it illegal for companies to use non-encrypted drives in business computers?”
Set [....]
September 14, 2009 – 8:20 am
Reliable enterprise-class disk drives are critical for any trustworthy data center.
Redundant storage system designs are necessary.
Failover power and cooling is essential.
But sometimes none of that matters. This video from [....]
By Pete Steege
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Posted in Backup, Data Center, International
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Also tagged barracuda es, Cheetah, constellation, data center, Data Center Knowledge, disk drives, enterprise, flood, Istanbul, nightmare, rain, savvio, storm, Turkey, underwater, video
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