This is a series of posts that cover the features of Hitachi’s new enterprise storage platform, the VSP (Virtual Storage Platform), also sold by HP as the P9500 array.
The VSP is the first enterprise array from Hitachi that offers support for 2.5″ drives. We’ve seen these Small Form Factor (SFF) models for some time [...]
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (the old IBM Disk Division) have announced a 500GB 2.5″ drive for laptops. Not particularly interesting I hear you say, however these latest drives from HGST now come in Standard and “Enhanced Availability” versions. The enhanced version claims to be able to run a 24/7 workload rather than standard [...]
I was asked the question today, when will Enterprise arrays support 2.5″ drives as standard? It’s a good question, as at first glance the savings should be obvious; smaller, lower power drives, more drives in an array and so on.
However things aren’t that simple. Doing the comparisons and working out some of the basic [...]
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