It’s hard to believe that over 3 years ago I asked a question on where hybrid drive technology had reached. I was thinking of the Enterprise market at the time and as far as I am aware, at this stage, no Enterprise storage array manufacturers have yet integrated these devices into their products. [...]
This is the second in a series of articles on Sun Microsystem’s Unified Storage System, also known as Amber Road. Previous post(s):
Review: Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System – Part I
So in the first post in this series I discussed the USS and gave a basic overview of the hardware. In [...]
There’s a new Drobo out!
The Drobo range has been expanded with the release of the DroboPro, an 8-drive big brother to the Drobo “classic”. The new model is being touted as a “business class storage array” and looks very interesting for the basic price tag of $1299 [...]
So the rumours (here and here) are true. Here’s the announcement to prove it. HDS are going to support 750GB SATA II drives in the USP.
This is an interesting position HDS are taking as thin provisioning will be able to take use of the enhanced drive capacity [...]
In a previous post on DMX-4 I discussed the use of SATA drives in enterprise arrays. A comment from our Storage Anarchist challenged my view of the resilience of SATA drives compared to FC.
Now unless I’ve been sleeping under a rock, the storage industry has over the last 5 years pummelled [...]
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