Archive for December, 2006

Understanding Statistics

I’ve been reading a few IDC press releases today. The most interesting (if any ever are) was that relating to Q3 2006 revenue figures for the top vendors. It goes like this: Top 5 Vendors, Worldwide External Disk Storage Systems Factory Revenue 3Q2006 (millions) EMC: $927 (21.4%)HP: $760 (17.6%)IBM:...
December 21st, 2006 | Uncategorized | Read More

Modular Storage Products

I’ve read a lot of posts recently on various storage related websites asking for comparisons of modular storage products. By that I’m referring to “dual controller architecture” products such as the HDS AMS, EMC Clariion and HP EVA. The questions come up time and time again, usually comparing...
December 20th, 2006 | Uncategorized | Read More

New RAID

Lots of people are talking about how we need a new way to protect our data and that RAID has had it. Agreed, going RAID6 gives some benefits (i.e. puts off the inevitable failure by a factor again), however the single problem to my mind with RAID today is the need to read all the other disks when a...
December 19th, 2006 | Uncategorized | Read More

How low can they go!

I love this picture. Toshiba announced today that they are producing a new 1.8″ disk drive using perpendicular recording techniques. This drive has a capacity of 100GB! It will be used on portable devices such as music players; its only 54 x 71 x 8 mm in size, weighs 59g and can transfer data...
December 5th, 2006 | Uncategorized | Read More

Is the Revolution Over?

I noticed over the weekend that http://www.storagerevolution.com’s website was down. Well it’s back up today, but the forums have disappeared. I wonder, is the revolution over for JWT and pals? _uacct = “UA-1104321-2″; urchinTracker();
December 4th, 2006 | Uncategorized | Read More