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Disks: why size means performance

OK, Smarty pants...How do I use only the outer-most sectors of my 500GB disk?Performance != reliabilitySeagate has progressively gotten worse with reliability - that's why they cut the 5-year warranty back down to 3 years. Western Digital has made great strides with reliability though. WD isn't focussing on...

Tags: Serial ATA, SSD, SAS Institute, SAS Drives, performance, disk

Discussion threads 2009-11-18

300GB 2.5" SAS drives from HP

300GB 2.5" SAS drives from HPtop capacity id 1Tbseagate proposes its barracuda ES.2 in SATA and SAS from 500Gb to 1000Gb. OK these are only 7200 disks, but some usages does not require low latency.

Tags: SAS Institute, SAS Drives, Hewlett-Packard Co., seagate

Discussion threads 2008-12-09

Additional Resources

Intel seeks new 'microserver' standard

Why bother with a new standard?What Intel needs to do is use the pre-existing motherboard form factors like Micro-ATX and Mini-ITX. Why can't they just design a board in the Mini-ITX form factor for a single-socket Xeon 3400-series processor with ECC RAM and dual-GBe ports with the standard fare...

Tags: Servers, MicroServer, server, Mini-ITX, Intel Corp., HP MediaSmart

Discussion threads 2009-10-30

Seagate's 2TB Barracuda XT, world's first SATA 6Gbps HDD

It is still a SeageteIt is still a seagate, so it will fail very quickly.RE: Seagate's 2TB Barracuda XT, world's first SATA 6Gbps HDDAny word on the real world performance of SATA 6Gpbs vs. SAS drives?RE: Seagate's 2TB Barracuda XT, world's first SATA 6Gbps HDDHow about smaller capacities? I...

Tags: Yes Vista, Seagate Technology LLC, SATA 6Gbps HDD, first SATA 6Gbps HDD, Serial ATA

Discussion threads 2009-09-22

Pliant talks up lower energy consumption, cost savings of its new enterprise flash technology

Start-up storage vendor Pliant Technology has begun shipping a new class of enterprise flash drives to OEMs for evaluation and qualification that should become available in commercial format by the end of September 2009. The technology, called Lightning, is a cache-less enterprise flash format that is designed...

Tags: High-performance Computing, Cost Savings, Watt, Cloud Computing, Storage, Leadership, Hardware, Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-09-15

Seagate Savvio 15K.2 ST9146852SS - hard drive - 146.8 GB - SAS-2

Seagate Savvio 15K.2 ST9146852SS - hard drive - 146.8 GB - SAS-2Sacklun.ch Article Review Savvio 15K.2 amidst many other drives.This drive along with the Cheetah 15K.6, Cheetah 15K.5, Savvio 10K.3 and the Constellation was reviewed on my web site. The article focuses on the 2.5" enterprise drive product lineup versus...

Tags: SAS-2, Seagate Technology LLC, hard drive

Discussion threads 2009-06-08

Best Practices for Deploying SSDs in an Oracle OLTP Environment Using Dell EqualLogic Storage

This white paper demonstrates the benefit of SSD arrays with real-world applications; Dell Labs tested the capabilities of SSDs using an Online Transaction Processing OLTP workload. The database was implemented in a tiered storage model that includes the latest Dell EqualLogic PS6000 arrays with SAS HDD and SSD drives. This...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Oracle Corp., Environment, Storage, OLTP, Dell EqualLogic, Best Practice, SSD, Application Performance Management, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

White papers 2009-04-01

Congratulations Marc… The next $billion will be harder

In 10 years, salesforce.com founder and CEO Marc Benioff has turned CRM-as-a-service into a $1B business with 55,400 customers.  Both numbers are impressive.  It took SAP more than 35 years and an acquisition of Business Objects to cross the 50,000 customer mark (BOBJ pushed them over 80,000).  ...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., PeopleSoft Inc., Oracle Corp., Sales Force, Siebel Systems Inc., SAP AG, CRM, Sales Force Management, Sales Strategy, Software As A Service (SaaS), Sales, Emerging Technologies, Bruce Richardson

Blog posts 2009-03-17

24 SSD RAID array opens ALL Microsoft Office apps in 0.5 sec!

24 SSD RAID array opens ALL Microsoft Office apps in 0.5 sec!OK ...How much, and how soon can I get one?LudoRE: 24 SSD RAID array opens ALL Microsoft Office apps in 0.5 sec!now if they could only develop a single drive with those kind of speeds, i still want to...

Tags: RAID, Microsoft Corp., SSD, SSD RAID array, Microsoft Office Apps, RAID array, Microsoft Office

Discussion threads 2009-03-10

Seagate demos 6Gbps hard-drive transfer speed

Seagate demos 6Gbps hard-drive transfer speedYou mean it increases interface speed 100%Doubling in speed equals a 100% increase in performance.Secondly, this is the interface speed and NOT the actual drive speed. You might be able to hit these top speeds if you're talking data from the hard drive cache....

Tags: Serial ATA, Gbps, hard drive, Seagate Technology LLC

Discussion threads 2009-03-09

Storage choices

Storage choicesWhat about the lords of storage?You know, the guys whose entire life is dedicated to carving out disk space? How do these highly paid specialists maintain simple JBODS or 74xx devices? Where are the switches? Where is the fiber? You mean they might have to log into a *gasp*...

Tags: Storage area networks (SAN), Storage management, RAID, Servers, ZFS, SAN, storage, CX4-240, Sun 74XX, LORDS, EMC Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Solution

Discussion threads 2009-01-13

CES 2009: SSD-only business notebooks the 'new wave' of 2009 [day 4]

This morning I got a chance to sit down with the guys at Samsung Semiconductor, who among other things, specialize in solid state drives. We had a good chat about the pros and cons of SSDs -- the cost to manufacture versus the savings in heat production, energy use, and...

Tags: Notebook, Watt, Microsoft Windows, Performance Management, Marketing Research, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Marketing, Hardware, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-01-09

BRU LE 1.3.7 (Mac)

BRU LE for Mac OS X provides backup and restore for Mac systems under Mac OS X 10.3 and 10.4. SCSI, SAS, Fibre-Channel, Firewire, and USB tape drives single drive and autoloaders (up to 10 slots) are fully supported. Additionally, disk-based files may be created allowing the use of removable...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, File System, BRU LE, Backups, Apple Mac OS X, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS

Software downloads 2009-01-08

OLTP Performance Comparison: Solid-State Drives Vs. Hard Disk Drives

Intel Corporation Intel commissioned Principled Technologies PT to compare performance and power for online transaction processing OLTP of two types of disk drives: Intel X25-E Extreme SATA Solid-State Drives (SSD5), standard 15K RPM SAS Hard Disk Drives (HDD5). The paper focused on a single usage scenario: that of a user...

Tags: Hard Drive, Disk, Disk Drive, OLTP, Intel Corp., Principled Technologies, Application Performance Management, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

White papers 2009-01-01

Windows Media Load Simulator Performance Comparison: Solid-State Drives Vs. Hard Disk Drives

Intel Corporation Intel commissioned Principled Technologies PT to compare the performance and power of two types of disk drives when streaming Windows Media: Intel X25-E Extreme SATA Solid-State Drives SSDs, Standard 15K RPM SAS Hard Disk Drives (HDD5). The author used the Windows Media Load Simulator WMLS test tool. WMLS...

Tags: Hard Drive, Windows Media, Disk Drive, Performance, Server, Intel Corp., Windows Media Load Simulator, Microsoft Windows, Performance Management, Digital Music, Digital Media, Operating Systems, Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

White papers 2009-01-01

Timely Market Intelligence Drives Additional Sales Revenues of 10 Percent: SAS Helps Faber Get the Right Products to Market at the Right Price

Manufacturers need to be able to identify and respond to local market needs by designing and marketing the right products and selling them at the optimum price in each country or region. The challenge was to analyse its business operations worldwide, addressing multi-company, multi-language and multi-currency requirements. Faber deployed a...

Tags: SAS Institute, Sales

Case studies 2009-01-01

PS Series 90000-User Storage Solution for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007

This document provides information on Dell's storage solution for Microsoft Exchange Server, based on the Microsoft Exchange Solution Reviewed Program ESRP - Storage program. This solution supports 90,000 simulated Exchange users using 14 Dell EqualLogic PS5000XV arrays with Seagate Cheetah 15K.6 450G 15,000 rpm SAS drives. For any questions or...

Tags: Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Exchange Server, Storage, Dell EqualLogic, Microsoft Corp., E-mail Servers, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2009-01-01

News to know: Microsoft patches; Office 14; Intuit; SAP

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: Office 14: The near silence is deafening Ryan Naraine: Hackers exploiting unpatched IE 7 flaw to launch drive-by attacks MS Patch...

Tags: Intuit Inc., Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Office, Patch Management, SAP AG, Microsoft Corp., E-mail, Microsoft Windows, Online Communications, Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2008-12-10

300GB 2.5" SAS drives from HP

HP has begun shipping 300GB 2.5" 10,000 RPM SAS (Serial-Attached SCSI) hard drives. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., SAS Institute, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-12-09

SAS Drives Savings and Revenues for 1-800-Flowers.com

1-800-FLOWERS.COM has grown its family of gift brands to more than 14 through a combination of internal development and strategic acquisitions in the past nine years. The challenge for 1-800-FLOWERS.COM was that it wanted to make decisions in real time to increase retention, reduce costs and keep its best customers...

Tags: Revenue, 1-800-Flowers.com Inc., SAS Institute

Case studies 2008-12-01