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Drive Prices Increase – Who Will Suffer Most?

By On November 6, 2011 · 13 Comments · In Storage

Storagezilla calls out hard disk availability in his recent post.  In fact, I discussed the subject of drive prices last week with James Carter of Touchdown PR on my way to SNW Europe.  James highlighted he was seeing prices on standard drives having doubled recently.

I went back and looked [...]

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Enterprise Computing: CLARiiON; Your Mileage May Vary

By On December 15, 2009 · 2 Comments · In Featured, GestaltIT

As part of my work at Storage Fusion, I get to dig into the inner workings of storage arrays in a way most people don’t (either through inclination or time).  One interesting anomaly we discovered this week was the variability in capacities of CLARiiON disks.  What results from this is that the capacity [...]

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Enterprise Computing: Is the Solid State Drive Hype Over?

By On November 5, 2009 · 14 Comments · In GestaltIT

Have a look at this news report from Barrons.com on their Tech Trader site.  STEC shares lost a whopping 36% as quoted in the article and in fact were down almost 39% for the day.  So have solid state drives lost their sparkle?

Barrons also wrote the day before on the STEC [...]

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Review: Western Digital WD20EADS 2TB SATA-II Hard Drive

By On September 8, 2009 · 6 Comments · In Uncategorized

We’re starting to see a flood of 2TB drives coming on to the market from all of the major hard drive manufacturers.  This review covers the Western Digital WD20EADS, a 2TB SATA-II drive with green credentials.

The Basics

The WD20EADS is part of the Caviar Green range of drives.  These are aimed at desktop computing [...]

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5TB drives

By On July 4, 2008 · 6 Comments · In Uncategorized

I just read this on The Register. 5TB drives! Can you imagine it! The HDD manufacturers continue to push the envelope even further.

Now I have a concern about drives getting to this size and that’s the ability to get data on/off the drive itself. With 73/146/300GB drives, the capacity to response time [...]

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Hybrid Storage Alliance

By On January 4, 2007 · 3 Comments · In Uncategorized

Fujitsu, Hitachi, Toshiba, Samsung and Seagate are getting together as the Hybrid Storage Alliance to promote the use of HDDs with large amounts of additional cache. They’ve set up a (not so snazzy) website at www.hybridstorage.org (check out the builder on the features page – when did [...]

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