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		<title><![CDATA[Flash drives: your mileage WILL vary]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/storage/?p=166]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Flash is an alien technology for disk users. I've noted before that flash drives can have really terrible write performance, but until I ran into it myself I had no idea how bad flash write performance could be.Last month I wrote see Five things you never knew about flash drivesFlash...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2007 10:09:11 -0700</pubDate>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/solid+state+disk.html"><![CDATA[Solid State Disk]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[Sorry about your broken RAID 5]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/storage/?p=164]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[You didn't know?I'm sorry I was the one to tell you that RAID 5 is broken today and will be well and truly broken in 2009 (see Why RAID 5 stops working in 2009), but somebody had to do it. The good news is that the industry is ahead of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2007 12:45:24 -0700</pubDate>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/disk+drives.html"><![CDATA[Disk drives]]></category>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/raid.html"><![CDATA[RAID]]></category>
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		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/robin+harris.html"><![CDATA[Robin Harris]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[Why RAID 5 stops working in 2009]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/storage/?p=162]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The storage version of Y2k? No, it's a function of capacity growth and RAID 5's limitations. If you are thinking about SATA RAID for home or business use, or using RAID today, you need to know why.RAID 5 protects against a single disk failure. You can recover all your data...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 06:18:54 -0700</pubDate>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/raid.html"><![CDATA[RAID]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[Disk drive life depends on . . . luck]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/storage/?p=156]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[What is the primary determinant of drive life? I've read the latest research and talked to insiders. There are so many variables that the best answer is just . . . luck. Why is that? Is there anything you can do?Many variables - and some that aren'tThe recent Carnegie Mellon...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2007 12:30:30 -0700</pubDate>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/infrastructure.html"><![CDATA[Infrastructure]]></category>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/disk+drives.html"><![CDATA[Disk drives]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[Death of a disk]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/storage/?p=153]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[It even happens to storage bloggersThings are quiet today at Mojo manor. My external 160 GB disk died. It passed quietly. No grinding noises. No SMART warning. No real warning at all, but for the last couple of months I'd been feeling a little anxious about that drive. Call me...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2007 23:06:22 -0700</pubDate>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/disk+drives.html"><![CDATA[Disk drives]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[Blu-ray vs HD DVD: game over]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/storage/?p=149]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Blu-ray wonThe sturm und drang over the Blu-ray vs HD DVD battle has come to naught. After a bit of jostling Blu-ray has taken an unassailable lead over HD DVD. Blockbuster's Matthew Smith, SVP of merchandising, says "The consumers are sending us a message. I can't ignore what I'm seeing."...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:01:31 -0700</pubDate>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/marketing.html"><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[How to REALLY erase a hard drive - Update]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/storage/?p=148]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[A new version of HDerase.exe has been releasedGo direct to UCSD's Center for Magnetic Recording Research website to download version 3.2.HDerase.exe accesses an ATA disk drive's internal Secure Erase commands to wipe a disk clean. Merely deleting a file doesn't delete your data: the data is still on the disk...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2007 11:11:59 -0700</pubDate>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/disk+drives.html"><![CDATA[Disk drives]]></category>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/security.html"><![CDATA[Security]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[The five weirdest things about flash drives]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/storage/?p=147]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Flash drives only look like disks. In fact, nothing works the way you'd think. Flash is really different from magnetic recording, and those differences have a big impact on  flash drive performance. How well vendors manage flash oddities has a huge impact on performance and even drive lifespan.The five...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2007 08:06:57 -0700</pubDate>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/solid+state+disk.html"><![CDATA[Solid State Disk]]></category>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/software.html"><![CDATA[Software]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[WD's surprising little drive]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/storage/?p=144]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[IIRC, it was just 15 years ago that Maxtor shipped the first 1 GB, 3.5" drive. The usual things happened: database admins all swore it was "too big," techies said it cost too much, and regular users wondered if they could ever fill it up.DBA's still kvetch about disk size...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2007 17:02:20 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Intel's latest memory problem]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/storage/?p=143]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Intel can't seem to catch a break. First their highly-touted FB-DIMMs deliver nothing beyond cost and heat. Now their highly-touted Robson technology is getting beat up.HP: are they or aren't they?In HP says no to Intel's Turbo Memory, David Meyer reports from London thatSteve Doddridge, senior notebook technology consultant for...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2007 07:12:17 -0700</pubDate>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/disk+drives.html"><![CDATA[Disk drives]]></category>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/solid+state+disk.html"><![CDATA[Solid State Disk]]></category>
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