Archive for November, 2008

I Hate iTunes!

iTunes has to be one of the worst applications Apple make. It it truly awful. I find it incredibly difficult to track where files came from, what’s on my iPod Touch and not, what are duplicates and so on. The poor interface means I have files littered about my hard drive and on my iPod which...
November 30th, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

Home Storage Management – Week 1

So after discussions on home storage, I’m going to do a weekly cleanup/report on what I’ve achieved. Here’s the baseline; Main Server; 927GB of usable storage (via Drobo) – 768GB in use. (82.84%). In fact I’ve consolidated a pair of mirrored 400GB drives onto the Drobo...
November 26th, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

Thin Provisioning or Good Practice, which is best? There's only one way to find out – Fight!

Marc Farley makes some interesting comparisons to storage purchasing decisions in a recent post. For the sake of disclosure, I do go to Costco and buy in bulk – no not 200lbs of chicken wings, but those things that can be divided and/or frozen (like salmon and coffee) – and more crucially...
November 25th, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

Eating My Own Dog Food

After my last post relating to personal data storage, I thought I’d spend some time and check out what I was currently using. On my main server, I store my data on a Drobo unit. The Drobo’s visualisation of data is to present a 2GB LUN, regardless of the installed drives. This is slightly...
November 24th, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

Just Delete It Claus, Just Delete It

Claus Mikkelsen has woken up recently and started posting after a large break. Perhaps he’s preparing for all those impending Christmas deliveries. Anyway, the crux of his post it to explain how he’s moved from 2-4TB of home storage rather than take the time to sort out the mess of his...
November 18th, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

Decho – EMC Takes Over The World

Chris Mellor just announced the news that EMC have bundled their Pi and Mozy acquisitions into a single entity, branded as Decho. I was far too slow and Storagezilla beat me to the mandatory EMC post. So, with Mozy and Pi we now have our data and backups online in the EMC cloud – which conveniently...
November 17th, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

Obligatory Atmos Post

I feel drawn to post on the details of Atmos and give my opinion whether it is good, bad, innovative or not. However there’s one small problem. Normally I comment on things that I’ve touched – installed/used/configured/broken etc, but Atmos doesn’t fit this model so my comments...
November 13th, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

You Sunk My Battleship!

I spent some time today with the good folks at 3Par, as offered by Marc Farley a few posts ago. It was good to get more of a background on the product and also see what’s happening in the future (although I can’t talk about that!). I think most of their technology is fairly well known...
November 11th, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

EMC Announces Hulk/Maui (well almost)

Yes, it’s almost here folks. The blogosphere tells us so. First of all, there’s Chuck Hollis’ latest post pondering the issue of how the storage cloud works and why it’s really difficult to pick up data quickly in geographically dispersed areas. He leaves us with the cliffhanger; “The...
November 10th, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

New Seagate Savvio Drives

Seagate have announced the availability of the next generation of Savvio 2.5″ drives running at 15K. Capacity is increased to 146GB (I’m waiting for confirmation this is the case as there are no data sheets online yet). The capacity increase is overdue to keep up with the roadmap of...
November 5th, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More
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