Thoughts on Mark Lewis’ Future Storage
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage on 08. Aug, 2007 | View Comments
EMC’s Mark Lewis posted another thoughtful “blog episode”, outlining five predictions he has for the next few years. I don’t really agree with him much more than I did the last time, but it’s an interesting read nonetheless!
Specialized Desktop Hard Drives
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Terabyte home on 06. Aug, 2007 | View Comments
I will begin my overview of the specialized hard drive market with the ubiquitous desktop disk drive. While just about any drive could be used in a desktop computer, the class is generally defined by what it lacks – compact size, power efficiency, exotic interfaces, special drive features, and high performance are all [...]
Wherefore Art Thou, Solid State Disks?
Posted by Stephen in Apple, Computer history, Enterprise storage on 02. Aug, 2007 | View Comments
Sure, hybrid drives are going nowhere fast in enterprise storage. But what about solid state disk technology? It’s been “almost there” for decades – anyone remember EMC’s solid-state Orion Atom (or was it Adam) array?
Now a handful of storage players are talking about SSD’s again, including some respectable names like LSI and Xiotech [...]
