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Robin Harris has been selling and marketing data storage for over 20 years in companies large and small. He has introduced a couple of multi-billion dollar storage products (DLT, the first Fibre Channel array) to market, as well as a couple of dozen smaller ones. He also spent 10 years...- more about Robin Harris »
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- Who makes the best hard drives?
- And just hoping to avoid the worstVendors and large users won't tell us who makes the best hard drives. So I decided to figure it for myself. Surprising findings: Over all quality is up. Western Digital is doing much better. Toshiba moves down. Seagate/Maxtor has work to do. Disk drives...
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- Blog posts 2007-07-10
- Apple's plan to replace Vista with OS X - on Wintel
- You're Apple, Inc. You have a new kick-butt file system, ZFS, that blows away Microsoft's aging NTFS and complements see-and-gotta-have storage tools like Time Machine.And maybe, you'd like to add the world's Windows users to your total available market. Enabling customers to replace the creaking mass of Windows compromise with...
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- Blog posts 2007-06-12
- Chunks: the hidden key to RAID performance
- Why do people think RAID means performance?George Ou, Technical Director at ZDNet and a fellow ZDnet blogger, has a great post about real life RAID performance - hardware vs software - plus some helpful comments about data layout, especially for MS SQL Server. As George notes, data layout can have...
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- Blog posts 2007-05-07
- How to REALLY erase a hard drive
- You may already know that "deleting" a file does nothing of the sort. But did you know that your disk drive has a built-in system for the secure erasure of data?No? Then read on.What do you mean "delete" doesn't delete?File information is maintained in a directory so your operating system...
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- Blog posts 2007-05-01
- Big impact lessons in email protection
- As massive storage becomes common, its importance growsTwo recent stories highlight the importance of massive storage and the people who manage it.Intel vs AMDAMD is suing Intel for anti-trust violations, claiming that Intel illegally used its market power to choke off AMD sales. During discovery, the legal process that is...
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- Blog posts 2007-04-30
- SSD watch: Dell laptops; TweakTown 16 GB SSD review
- SSDs are comin' onDigiTimes is reporting this morning that Dell is offering 1.8" 32 GB solid state disk drives as an alternative to standard hard drives on a couple of their small notebooks.The new drives can also increase system performance by up to 23% and decreases boot time by up...
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- Blog posts 2007-04-25
- Can software RAID be faster than hardware RAID?
- Of course. Here's how.As the comments on my recent post Apple's new kick-butt file system showed, some folks can't believe that software RAID could be faster than a modern hardware RAID system. But it can. Not only that, it will be increasingly common in the years to come. Later, I'll...
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- Blog posts 2007-04-24
- Power, notebooks and solid state disks
- My much-loved HP Omnibook 300 notebook went from a 4-hour battery life to 10+ hours when used with a compact flash card instead of a disk. Your laptop won't. Ever wonder why?Me too.So here's a short course in laptop power.Measuring powerThere are a lot of wrinkles in the power game,...
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- Blog posts 2007-04-23
- Why is Vista lame?
- Critical reception of Vista is cool, at best. Yet I know Microsoft didn't set out to create a mediocre product. They have a lot of smart, passionate people who really want to create industry leading products. It is just that, on their flagship product, they haven't. Explanations abound, with the...
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- Blog posts 2007-04-19
- Apple's new kick-butt file system
- As a long time fan of Apple - I bought an Apple // in 1978 - I watch Apple's storage efforts with special interest. The least talked about addition to the next version of Mac OS X, Leopard, is notable. Especially since Microsoft's WinFS bit the dust.Apple is doing something...
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- Blog posts 2007-04-15
- A SAN for the rest of us
- Fibre Channel to costly? iSCSI too slow?In a past life I was the product manager for the industry's first full Fibre Channel array. We had great hopes for FC as a storage-optimized network that would bring the power of network economics to drive down storage costs. My bad.Hijacked by vendors,...
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- Blog posts 2007-04-12
- A flash drive in your future?
- The good, the bad and the uglyI've been a huge fan of flash ever since I plunked down $400 for a 10 MB compact flash card in the early '90s for my brand-spanking new HP Omnibook 300. Light and built like a tank, the 300's chiseled abs battery life almost...
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- Blog posts 2007-04-11
- Hard disks *do* get slower with use
- The question is why?We've been so conditioned to think that various evils - malware, fragmentation, bad blocks, and general bit rot, among others - are hosing our disk performance that we forget that hard disks really do get slower with use. It is natural and unavoidable, but there are some...
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- Blog posts 2007-04-10
- Enterprise SOA: cool, sexy and so-o-o doomed!
- Services Oriented Architecture is climbing the hype cycle. Amazon's S3 and Elastic Computing Cloud are exemplars of a brave new world of SOA. Modest success stories are making the rounds. IT folks are getting excited and starting to make promises they won't be able to keep.This isn't going to end...
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- Blog posts 2007-04-09
- Gort! Klaatu barada nikto!
- Translation: protect Klaatu's home videos!Meet Drobo, what his inventors call the world's first storage robot. It is an important step in the consumerization of IT: a storage array that manages storage protection and capacity so you don't have to. Drobo is a USB black box that stores and protects your...
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- Blog posts 2007-04-06
- Desktop RAID is a bad idea
- Jon Bach, who runs Puget Custom Computers in Seattle, explains Why RAID is usually a Terrible Idea in his blog.Breaks way more often than disks doJon notes that for some reason many of his customers come to him convinced that they need RAID on their home or professional workstations, and...
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- Blog posts 2007-04-04
- Protecting genetic storage
- It ain't just bits on your laptop, buckoMIT's Technology Review blogger David Ewing Duncan writes about Nobel Laureate and co-discoverer of DNA, James Watson.DNA is, of course, a very compact biotech storage medium - pure informationWatson agreed a couple of years ago to have his DNA sequenced and publicly released...
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- Blog posts 2007-04-03
- Public optical storage
- The whole literacy thing is so-o-o second millenniumThe New York Times has an article on cell-phone readable bar codes irritating registration required. Maybe this will cut down drunken party photos on FriendsterAlready in use in Japan and Europe - you know, the more technologically advanced parts of the world -...
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- Blog posts 2007-04-02
- Making America strong - one family at a time
- Mash-up on steroidsIt sure is nice to see the folks in Washington DC pick up on the latest technology and put it to good wholesome use. I refer, of course, to a pilot program here in Arizona run by the Department of Family Security.With an inspired combination of GPS automobile...
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- Blog posts 2007-04-01
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