It seems there is still some confusion out there on how, when, where and why to tier internal storage, so I’ll take a shot at explaining this as I know it today. The easiest and most sensible place to start is of course at the “Why” tier my storage. As with everything in the business [...]
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…
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…
With all the talk of the continued exponential growth of storage, and the excitement surrounding the consumption being driven by all the new applications and devices that access information from the Cloud, it’s easy to overlook the question of just where exactly all the backend technology will…
You know that the storage consumption growth trend is going to continue, but now IDC put some numbers together along with expert analysis to examine the trend even closer. In its new IDC Digital Universe Study, “Extracting Value from Chaos” (sponsored by EMC), the study forecasts that 1.8 zettabytes will be created and replicated in [...]
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?…
In a recent StorageNewsletter.com story, an argument was presented that SSDs and HDDs are different technologies and are therefore going to follow different paths with regard to form factors. Because an SSD is not a mechanical device with rotating platters, it is less constrained as to any form factor restrictions. Makes sense, and while it’s [...]
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…
Yes they do! IT Pros know what drive brands are spinning inside their equipment. OEMs may want all of us drive guys to be strictly vanilla but to IT pros, there is a difference …especially when it comes to enterprise storage. Each month IT Brand Pulse selects a handful of product…
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