Comments on: 5TB drives http://thestoragearchitect.com/2008/07/04/5tb-drives/ Storage, Virtualisation & Cloud Mon, 21 May 2012 20:10:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Chris M Evans http://thestoragearchitect.com/2008/07/04/5tb-drives/#comment-292 Chris M Evans Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:56:00 +0000 http://thestoragearchitect.wordpress.com/2008/07/04/5tb-drives/#comment-292 Pete, So all the "secret sauce" that goes into DMX/USP type arrays could then be completely negated as a lot of effort is put into coping with the disadvantages of mechanical disks. However I don't think that disk is ready to usurp tape's portability and innate ability to exist without needing power. Interesting times... Pete, So all the “secret sauce” that goes into DMX/USP type arrays could then be completely negated as a lot of effort is put into coping with the disadvantages of mechanical disks. However I don’t think that disk is ready to usurp tape’s portability and innate ability to exist without needing power. Interesting times…

]]> By: Pete Steg http://thestoragearchitect.com/2008/07/04/5tb-drives/#comment-291 Pete Steg Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:26:00 +0000 http://thestoragearchitect.wordpress.com/2008/07/04/5tb-drives/#comment-291 SSD is the solution. Disk is the new Tape, and Flash is the new Disk.<br/><br/>Give it some time, though. What we see on the market today from STEC and others is a good start, but the technology has a ways to go to complement performance drives in the mainstream. SSD is the solution. Disk is the new Tape, and Flash is the new Disk.

Give it some time, though. What we see on the market today from STEC and others is a good start, but the technology has a ways to go to complement performance drives in the mainstream.

]]> By: Chris M Evans http://thestoragearchitect.com/2008/07/04/5tb-drives/#comment-290 Chris M Evans Wed, 09 Jul 2008 09:40:00 +0000 http://thestoragearchitect.wordpress.com/2008/07/04/5tb-drives/#comment-290 Barry<br/><br/>I wonder if that means the HDD of 20 years time will look as different today as the Winchester drives used in the 50's and 60's? Barry

I wonder if that means the HDD of 20 years time will look as different today as the Winchester drives used in the 50′s and 60′s?

]]> By: Chris M Evans http://thestoragearchitect.com/2008/07/04/5tb-drives/#comment-289 Chris M Evans Wed, 09 Jul 2008 09:39:00 +0000 http://thestoragearchitect.wordpress.com/2008/07/04/5tb-drives/#comment-289 Alex, thanks for the link, it says similar things to my thinking - plus it gives me another RSS feed to add to my ever growing list! Alex, thanks for the link, it says similar things to my thinking – plus it gives me another RSS feed to add to my ever growing list!

]]> By: BarryWhyte http://thestoragearchitect.com/2008/07/04/5tb-drives/#comment-288 BarryWhyte Sat, 05 Jul 2008 21:12:00 +0000 http://thestoragearchitect.wordpress.com/2008/07/04/5tb-drives/#comment-288 Chris,<br/><br/>I agree completely. I've heard rumours of one vendor looking at putting 4 SAS ports on a single device... maybe multi-ported drives, separate 'segmented caches' within the drive and more parallelism will come. Infact it needs to if we are to maintain anything other than archive / backup data on such drives. Chris,

I agree completely. I’ve heard rumours of one vendor looking at putting 4 SAS ports on a single device… maybe multi-ported drives, separate ‘segmented caches’ within the drive and more parallelism will come. Infact it needs to if we are to maintain anything other than archive / backup data on such drives.

]]> By: Alex http://thestoragearchitect.com/2008/07/04/5tb-drives/#comment-287 Alex Sat, 05 Jul 2008 07:31:00 +0000 http://thestoragearchitect.wordpress.com/2008/07/04/5tb-drives/#comment-287 have you read this article ?<br/><br/>http://blogs.sun.com/ahl/entry/hybrid_storage_pools_in_cacm<br/><br/>It seems relevant to your performance concerns<br/><br/>Alex have you read this article ?

http://blogs.sun.com/ahl/entry/hybrid_storage_pools_in_cacm

It seems relevant to your performance concerns

Alex

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