Comments on: Pillar First To Put Faith In 2 TB Enterprise Drives http://blog.fosketts.net/2009/08/27/pillar-put-faith-2-tb-enterprise-drives/ Understanding the accumulation of data Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:58:00 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: mikeworkman http://blog.fosketts.net/2009/08/27/pillar-put-faith-2-tb-enterprise-drives/comment-page-1/#comment-14012 mikeworkman Fri, 28 Aug 2009 19:21:12 +0000 http://blog.fosketts.net/?p=2273#comment-14012 Stephen - The Axiom is designed to handle lots of classes of storage. Just as before, when the 5-Platter Hitachi's are available with 7200 RPM spindles I am sure our customers will make these a mainstay as they did the Hitachi 1TB drives. What we try to do is make options available to our customers as soon as we can. As you know, some applications allow the tradeoff of lower power for higher latency. Since this is what our QoS is all about - tradeoffs or tiering in the box - we use it. <br><br>Regarding the "faith" - not really. Our drives are fitted to a carrier which dual ports them, we build them into very small 5+1+1HS RAID groups. I love drives, and I spent 20 years developing them, but they have moving parts: No faith allowed. Lot's of engineering (hardware and firmware) surrounding these puppies to ensure data availability.<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>MIke Stephen – The Axiom is designed to handle lots of classes of storage. Just as before, when the 5-Platter Hitachi's are available with 7200 RPM spindles I am sure our customers will make these a mainstay as they did the Hitachi 1TB drives. What we try to do is make options available to our customers as soon as we can. As you know, some applications allow the tradeoff of lower power for higher latency. Since this is what our QoS is all about – tradeoffs or tiering in the box – we use it.

Regarding the “faith” – not really. Our drives are fitted to a carrier which dual ports them, we build them into very small 5+1+1HS RAID groups. I love drives, and I spent 20 years developing them, but they have moving parts: No faith allowed. Lot's of engineering (hardware and firmware) surrounding these puppies to ensure data availability.

Thanks,

MIke

]]> By: mikeworkman http://blog.fosketts.net/2009/08/27/pillar-put-faith-2-tb-enterprise-drives/comment-page-1/#comment-13618 mikeworkman Fri, 28 Aug 2009 15:21:12 +0000 http://blog.fosketts.net/?p=2273#comment-13618 Stephen - The Axiom is designed to handle lots of classes of storage. Just as before, when the 5-Platter Hitachi's are available with 7200 RPM spindles I am sure our customers will make these a mainstay as they did the Hitachi 1TB drives. What we try to do is make options available to our customers as soon as we can. As you know, some applications allow the tradeoff of lower power for higher latency. Since this is what our QoS is all about - tradeoffs or tiering in the box - we use it. <br><br>Regarding the "faith" - not really. Our drives are fitted to a carrier which dual ports them, we build them into very small 5+1+1HS RAID groups. I love drives, and I spent 20 years developing them, but they have moving parts: No faith allowed. Lot's of engineering (hardware and firmware) surrounding these puppies to ensure data availability.<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>MIke Stephen – The Axiom is designed to handle lots of classes of storage. Just as before, when the 5-Platter Hitachi's are available with 7200 RPM spindles I am sure our customers will make these a mainstay as they did the Hitachi 1TB drives. What we try to do is make options available to our customers as soon as we can. As you know, some applications allow the tradeoff of lower power for higher latency. Since this is what our QoS is all about – tradeoffs or tiering in the box – we use it.

Regarding the “faith” – not really. Our drives are fitted to a carrier which dual ports them, we build them into very small 5+1+1HS RAID groups. I love drives, and I spent 20 years developing them, but they have moving parts: No faith allowed. Lot's of engineering (hardware and firmware) surrounding these puppies to ensure data availability.

Thanks,

MIke

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