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The HDD Shortage and What it Means for Pricing
Posted on January 23, 2012
Recently, we asked for feedback on what our readers would like to see a blog about. Greg Anderson suggested, “Hard disk shortages and how that affects SSDs. What will its impact be on pricing?” When flooding devastated areas of Thailand in late 2011, hard disk drive (HDD) suppliers were one of the many to be [...]
Email This PageDisk Contention Defined
Posted on January 12, 2012
Disk contention is a situation occurring when multiple processes try to access the same disk(s) and the requests outrun the response times of the drive(s). This happens because most disks are restricted in the amount of data they can transfer and the number of accesses (I/O operations) they can handle each second. Disk contention became [...]
SSD: Imagine the Possibilities
Posted on January 6, 2012
How much of your storage environment is performance based versus capacity based? How many times do you hear, “I have an application only three terabytes in size but I need 90K in I/O at its peak?” If you haven’t, be grateful. But be warned, it’s coming. For those who have heard similar statements, there is [...]
3 Myths About MLC Flash Storage
Posted on January 4, 2012
It’s no secret that flash storage arrays have some seriously great potential and an abundance of advantages over alternatives, including that there are no moving parts, they’re fast and they’re compact. This encourages any person with a brain to ask why do so many people still insist on using disk for all of their storage [...]
2012 Predictions
Posted on December 30, 2011
Solid-state will enter the next state of product maturation along the IT life cycle . . . And the Jets will win the Super Bowl. -Andy Flesch, Vice President of Sales, North America 2012 will see the emergence of solid-state as a primary storage mechanism for a variety of performance intensive workloads. -James Candelaria, [...]