If storage isn’t a big enough part of your work life, how about bringing it home for the Holidays?
This enterprising chap turned 70 old SCSI disk drives into a one terabyte tannenbaum.
If he had used today’s latest small form factor enterprise SAS drives (like the 300GB Seagate Savvio), he would have would have had 21 terabytes to string with tinsel.
Something to plan for next year, Philip?
Happy Holidays to Storage Effect readers wherever you are. I wish you the very best in 2009.
Categories: Random
Tagged: 1 TB, Christmas tree, disk drives, Pete Steege, SAS, SCSI, storage effect
An up-and-comer for the data-rich crowd?
Chris Meiller over at The Register highlights IQstor’s new storage array, the IQ5200. 52 1 TB drives in 4U. That compares favorably with the Equallogic PS5500’s 48 drives in the same space.
First to qualify 1.5 terabyte drives in these boxes wins the next capacity density crown.
IQStore has been a quiet small OEM supplier up to now. If the IQ5200 pans out in terms of reliability and performance, that may be changing.
Categories: Products · Storage Systems
Tagged: 1 TB, 1.5 TB, Dell, density, Equallogic, IQ5200, IQstor, storage
For me it’s 1.2 terabytes
In previous posts I’ve added up the storage in my home office and my living room. Now it’s time to go to work:
My first blog post a year ago was about my full drive on my work PC. Since then I’ve expanded to 100 gigabytes. Nothing like my home PC, but work space requirements tend to be lower.
I’m in the midst of changing my backup method from a local desktop backup drive to a BlackArmor portable drive. It allows me to backup my work remotely. It’s got Seagate Secure technology, which means it’s hackproof – no worries about losing sensitive information.
I expect my next laptop to have a Seagate Secure encrypted drive inside as well.
Someday it will be considered stupid – and maybe illegal – to use a hard drive that’s not self-encrypting in a business PC.
Categories: Backup · Business Solutions · Desktop · Laptop PC · Video blog
Tagged: 1 TB, 500 GB, Backup, BlackArmor, cubicle, FreeAgent Go, laptop, Maxtor, notebook, office, Seagate, storage
SAS drives are thriving outside the data center, despite SATA’s cost advantage
Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) was created to replace SCSI, the long-standing enterprise hard drive interface. It has done that, but there have been sightings far from the datacenter. Places like Ravelry, a seemingly home-hosted knitting website:
Rather than shrink in the face of lower priced SATA drives, SAS drives are expanding into SATA’s domain. What’s going on here?
If you’re still stuck in a SCSI/SATA mindset, consider a crash course on SAS.
Who’s replaced SATA or IDE with SAS recently?
Categories: Business Solutions · Digital Home · Industry trends
Tagged: 1 TB, 2.5", 450 GB, Barracuda ES, Cheetah 15K, Ravelry, SAS, SATA
SAS drives get bigger and smaller to take share from SATA for business applications
IDC data from InfoStor shows this year and next are the golden age of SATA drives in the enterprise.
It’s not that the trend for high capacity storage abates in the future; it’s that SAS drives are expanding their capabilities to replace SATA in many applications.
Why settle for an interface originally designed for PCs if you can get the same thing in SAS for a little bit more?
SATA drives won’t go away of course – they still provide the most capacity for the dollar. If it’s good enough for an application, people will continue to use it.
Have you made the jump to SAS? Why or why not?
Categories: Datacenter · Industry trends · Random · Servers · Storage Systems
Tagged: 1 TB, 2.5", Barracuda ES, IDC, InfoStor, SAS, SATA, Savvio
More room to save all those movies – and your cable company is happy too
Seagate just announced Showcase, add-on storage for DVRs. This is great news for movie hoarders like you and me, but also a big plus for the service providers.
Think about it: your cable company gives you a set-top DVR free or at a discount with their service. They’re not motivated to fill it up with lots of capacity that adds cost for them. Yet HD movies take a lot of room, and more and more consumers want to keep it all.
Showcase will let service providers give their packrat customers what they want – a way to add space to save all those HD TV shows and movies – without adding terabytes of storage as a fixed cost for every customer.
Categories: Digital Home · Products
Tagged: 1 TB, DVR, Seagate, Showcase
Higher performance and redundancy for high-capacity SAS architectures
Web 2.0 storage applications have been a boon to high capacity server-class SATA drives like Seagate’s Barracuda ES. But 7200 rpm SATA will only take you so far. Enterprise-class 15K rpm SAS drives are incredibly robust and full-featured, and priced like it. Shouldn’t there be something in between?
Now there is. Seagate has added a SAS drive to the Barracuda ES family. It costs a little more than the SATA version, but gives back dual ports and more than twice the performance in some applications, along with the 1 TB capacity.
Conventional wisdom is that performance is determined by spin speed. Don’t overlook the power of SAS to jack up the speed of your high-capacity applications.
Categories: Products · Random · Storage Systems
Tagged: 1 TB, Barracuda ES, SAS, SATA, Seagate
Performance delta between vendors highlights different designs
Richard Poelling at The Tech Lounge recently reviewed three 1 terabyte SATA drives. Seagate’s Barracuda 7200.11 and Barracuda ES.2 drives came out on top compared to Hitachi’s DeskStar 7K1000 drive.
Additional takeaways:
1 TB SATA disk drives with blazing speed to boot…this industry has come a long way.
Categories: Products
Tagged: 1 TB, Barracuda, Barracuda ES, DeskStar, disk drive, Hitachi, review, Richard Poelling, Seagate, The Tech Lounge
1 TB in 10 years is a yawner, unless price/performance is truly unique
The latest announcement on the future of storage tech comes from Nanochip, Inc: An array-based flash memory that scales to 1 TB, is cheaper and easier to manufacture than today’s flash, and is supported by Intel and others. Exciting!
Before you get too enthralled, note that the techology is 10 years from production. Two problems with this:
Keep filling the pipe with fun technology! But don’t take your eye of the ball on your current storage solution plans for this one.
Categories: Industry trends · Products
Tagged: 1 TB, Flash, Inc., Intel, Nanochip
Higher resolution content drives growth in photos, music and video
The content explosion continues unabated. Robert Scoble highlights yet another reason it will continue for the foreseeable future. He wants to save all his photos in RAW format…on the web.
Higher resolution content is driving the information Big Bang:
1 TB drives are shipping in the hundreds of thousands to keep all of this content in the back rooms of content companies and the living rooms of consumers.
What format is good enough for you today? Tomorrow? I’d love to hear from you.
Categories: Digital Home · Industry trends
Tagged: 1 TB, Apple, High Definition, jpeg, MusicGiant, raw photo, video
