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- Disk drive price change
- Disk drive price changeAre we still using SCSI drives?I've moved onto SATA drives myself. Are people still using SCSI, if so why?Reading Cringley now eh?He does come up with some doozies - but he always explains himself well. This "hard drive" proposal is basically SyQuest v3, but it sure sounds...
- Tags: US3, disk drive, Nothing, SCSI, Serial ATA, disk, processor
- Discussion threads 2006-11-02
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- The good old days - are back?
- The good old days - are back?Faster disks - how so?They still run at 7200 RPM (10k or 15k for HP SCSI). They still have the same number of platters and heads. A 500Gb drive takes about 500 times longer to load and unload completely as a 1Gb drive. It's...
- Tags: Sun Solaris, UNIX, Operating systems, Sun Microsystems Inc., Niagara-2, disk, advertisement
- Discussion threads 2006-09-11
- SMP/CMT, ZFS, and RDBMS internals
- SMP/CMT, ZFS, and RDBMS internalsAll that matters littlePutting myself in the role of CIO - Why should I go with ANYTHING from a company that cuts another 10% of its workforce every 6 months? Stability matters - moreso than technology. Many companies are burned every year by trying to implement...
- Tags: Sun Solaris, Databases, Operating systems, UNIX, Intel x86, Sun Microsystems Inc., RDBMS
- Discussion threads 2006-06-05
- 10 vs. 10
- I had an incautious moment last week in which I said that 10 Sun Rays attached to one V890 would outperform 10 AIX workstations on engineering applications. Here's part of what Roger Ramjet had to say about that: My 10 AIX workstations WITHOUT A SERVER would...
- Tags: IBM Corp., IBM AIX, Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-04-10
- Help needed on Sun POD design and cost
- I think 2006 will go down in history as a year of phenomenal change in IT: more dramatic and more through going than anything we've seen before. By the end of the year we'll probably have seen the end of Apple's Intel affair, IBM will have publicly committed to moving...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Deacon
- Blog posts 2006-01-03
- ZFS vs. Apple X-RAID
- ZFS vs. Apple X-RAIDQuestionsWhy use RAID 0+1? I and many of my storage friends prefer 1+0. Mirrored stripes seems more simple than striped mirrors.Is SATA competitive with SCSI? What are the transfer rates?Would you jump on the ZFS bandwagon in a production environment? I would do the customary "don't buy...
- Tags: Storage, ZFS, RAID, Apple Inc., Serial ATA, Apple X-RAID, Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2005-12-08
- Comparing Sun and Dell servers
- One of the most deeply held beliefs underlying a lot of what you read in the popular press involves the idea that Wintel hardware is both cheaper and more varied than Unix hardware. Point out to the people who say this that anything capable of running a licensed Windows variant...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., server
- Blog posts 2005-08-23
- The things we know for sure
- If you work in IT, particularly if you're a middle manager or otherwise have some responsibility for the future of your organization, try this five-part quiz -- then ask how your boss would do. True or false? (1) It is possible to have over 30,000 fully supported desktops with no...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Microsoft Windows, Sun Ray
- Blog posts 2005-08-09
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