Category Archives: Storage reliability

Toshiba studies laptop write rates confirming SSD longevity

Posted on January 8, 2010 by Ray

Today Toshiba announced a new series of SSD drives based on their 32NM MLC NAND technology. The new technology is interesting but what caught my eye was another part of their website, i.e., their SSD FAQs. We have talked about … Continue reading →

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Seagate launches their Pulsar SSD

Posted on December 8, 2009 by Ray

Today Seagate announced their new SSD offering, named the Pulsar SSD.  It uses SLC NAND technology and comes in a 2.5″ form factor at 50, 100 or 200GB capacity.  The fact that it uses a 3GB/s SATA interface seems to … Continue reading →

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7 grand challenges for the next storage century

Posted on November 19, 2009 by Ray

I saw a recent IEEE Spectrum article on engineering’s grand challenges for the next century and thought something similar should be done for data storage. So this is a start: Replace magnetic storage – most predictions show that magnetic disk … Continue reading →

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Yottabytes by 2015!?

Posted on November 3, 2009 by Ray

Well, maybe an Exabyte a day was way too small for 2009. NSA is now reporting that they may be storing yottabytes (YB, 10**24) of data by 2015 somewhere in Utah. Later reports have NSA reducing this down to something … Continue reading →

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Repositioning of tape

Posted on October 30, 2009 by Ray

In my past life, I worked for a dominant tape vendor. Over the years, we had heard a number of times that tape was dead. But it never happened. BTW, it’s also not happening today. Just a couple of weeks … Continue reading →

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Are RAID's days numbered?

Posted on October 23, 2009 by Ray

A older article that I recently came across said RAID 5 would be dead in 2009 by Robin Haris StorageMojo. In essence, it said as drives get to 1TB or more the time it took to rebuild the drive required … Continue reading →

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Latest SPECsfs2008 results – chart of the month

Posted on October 20, 2009 by Ray

The adjacent chart is from our September newsletter and shows the top 10 NFSv3 throughput results from the latest SPEC(R) sfs2008 benchmark runs published as of 25 September 2009. There have been a number of recent announcements of newer SPECsfs2008 … Continue reading →

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Cache appliances rise from the dead

Posted on October 15, 2009 by Ray

Sometime back in the late 80′s a company I once worked with had a product called the tape accelerator which was nothing more than a ram cache in front of a tape device to smooth out physical tape access. The … Continue reading →

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