This is a series of posts on the Promise SmartStor NS4600 home storage server. Previous posts:
Hardware Review: Promise SmartStor NS4600 – Part I
In the first post of this series, we discussed the basic hardware configuration. This post will look at connectivity and RAID configurations supported by the NS4600.
A quick glance [...]
This is a series of posts on the Promise SmartStor NS4600 home storage server.
Background
Promise Technology Inc have been manufacturing RAID controllers since 1988 and iSCSI storage systems since 2004. In 2007, the company released the first of the SmartStor devices, the NS4300, a fully-functioned home NAS storage array. That was followed [...]
This review covers the Western Digital RE4-GP drive, also known as the WD20FYPS 2TB SATA model. Previous reviews:
THw WD20FYPS is a 2TB SATA drive from Western Digital’s Enterprise Drive range. It boasts a larger cache and a whole range of features that should boost performance and reliability. But are these benefits [...]
This is the time of year I like to do a little early spring cleaning and one group of storage devices due a clean out are my old hard drives.
Many financial and government organisations choose to destroy the hard drives that are declared as failing and removed from their arrays. They use products like this which make the hard drive unusable.
What happens to these hard drives? I presume they just end up in landfill and aren’t recycled. Is it beyond the [...]
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 [...]
We all know that disk drive manufacturers have been conning us for years with their definition of what constitutes a gigabyte. There are two schools of thought; the binary GB, which is 1024x1024x1024 or 1,073,741,824 bytes and the decimal GB which is quoted as 1000x1000x1000 or 1 billion bytes. The difference is significant (7.4%) and [...]
HGST (Hitachi Global Storage Technologies) announced yesterday that they have managed to further miniaturise the drive heads they use in the hard disk drives. I hadn’t realised exactly how small these recording heads were; apparently 2000 times smaller than the width of a human hair. Called “current perpendicular-to-the-plane giant magnetoresistive1 (CPP-GMR) heads” (I [...]
I read this interesting article on the BBC website today. It talks about how two European scientists (Albert Fert and Peter Grunberg) have won the Nobel prize for physics for GMR (giant magnetoresistance). This technology has enabled hard drives to be made smaller and to hold more data. What I liked most [...]
Lots of talk today about the 1 terabyte drive from Hitachi. In fact the drive is more likely to be about 931GB based on the dubious practice of using decimal 1000′s rather than binary (whilst we’re on that subject, the concept of decimal versus binary does annoy me – what with that and overhead, on [...]
- Use Symantec and know your sensitive data is protected with industry-leading backup & recovery software.
Experience Symantec Backup Software
Popular Posts
- Netapp: The Inflexibility of Flexvols (3729)
- Back to Blogging (2255)
- The technical solution is not always the best (1976)
- Data ONTAP 8.0 – Part III (1783)
- Solid State Arrays: Pure Storage Inc (1746)
- EMC Releases All Flash VNX (1741)
- Enterprise Computing: Why Thin Provisioning Is Not The Holy Grail for Utilisation (1507)
- Who Will Be The First Solid State Array Vendor To Be Acquired? (1483)
- Drive Prices Increase – Who Will Suffer Most? (1426)
- VAAI Follow Up – VMware Recommend Disabling Thin Reclaim (1346)
