Last week I posted about wasted hard drives, removed from arrays and crushed to prevent the leak of sensitive data.
I contacted HGST and Seagate to get some additional background. Here are their responses, slightly edited to correct any spelling mistakes but otherwise intact.
Seagate
(a) when will the technology be [...]
Last Wednesday I passed a pleasant evening chatting with a number of people from HP on the subject of “Green IT”. I happen to think that “Green IT” is an oxymoron as IT is never going to deliver computing power using 100% recyclable energy and components. However, IT can certainly improve its green credentials from [...]
Last year I blogged about the concept of storage futures (or options – I’d have to go back and check which) which would allow storage charges to be based on a forward pricing model. The logic for this was to penalise those “customers” who don’t bother to take the time and plan [...]
HDS announced today a few amendments to the AMS/WMS range. The most interesting is the apparent ability to power down drives which are not in use a-la-Copan.
According to the press release above, the drives can be powered down by the user as necessary, which presents some interesting questions. Firstly, I guess [...]
3Par, a storage array vendor is promising to purchase carbon emission offset credits for every TB of thin provisioning storage customers purchase in 2007.
Their estimate, based on the 4PB of storage they expect to sell is that the equivalent of 700 cars or 8 million lbs (that’s [...]
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