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Storage maven inXtron adds to its line of USB 3.0 devices with the Orbit. Not to be confused with the Altec Lansing Orbit speaker, this Orbit is a 2.5 hard drive enclosure built for two 2.5″ drives. They’ve developed this closely with Gigabyte, who is leading the way with many USB 3.0 implementations; and Silicon [...]
TRON, the movie that captured our imaginations and united young and old at the dawn of the graphical evolution for computing, is about to return. The original TRON is still near to our hearts and we challenge you to find someone who didn’t dream of racing Light-Cycles or Frisbee fighting. As weak as that may [...]
Sony once again returns to the compact camera fray with an impossibly thin 10 megapixel slim digicam called the Cybershot DSC-TX1. Boasting the best techno-wizardry Sony has to offer, including a brand new EXMOR R back-illuminated CMOS image sensor, new touch-screen interface, and 720p HD video capability, the TX1 arrives well dressed to the party. [...]
Even if you don’t smoke, carrying a cigarette lighter around is a great conversation starter. Brando has a great USB tool that may just replace your current wing man the next time you hit the clubs. It’s a USB Cigarette Lighter with a UV light. Charged by the ubiquitous miniUSB cable, an internal rechargeable battery [...]
Some customers at NetApp’s Analyst Days were discussing deployments of NetApp storage with Dave Hitz the new storage efficiency czar and others but I was more interested in their comments on storage growth issues. Jonathan Bartes of Virginia Farm Bureau mentioned the “natural growth rate of unstructured data” seemed to be about 20% per year, [...]
The chart shown here reflects information from a SCI StorInt(tm) dispatch on the latest Storage Performance Council benchmark performance results and depicts the top IO operations done per second per installed drive for SPC-1 and SPC-1/E submissions. This particular storage performance metric is one of the harder ones to game. For example, adding more drives to [...]
Warning! Singapore gangs are selling fake flash memory on eBay. They are well organized and coordinated. If you see a buyer in Singapore purchasing an item from a seller in Singapore, it is to manipulate the sellers feedback score. The feedback they leave, is most of the time, within minutes of purchase. “feedback left for [...]
Multiple cloud storage gateways either have been announced or are coming out in the next quarter or so. We have talked before about Nasuni’s file cloud storage gateway appliance, but now that more are out one can have a better appreciation of the cloud gateway space. StorSimple Last week I was talking with StorSimple that [...]
We were talking with Ursheet Parikh at StorSimple today about their new cloud gateway product (to be covered in a future post) when at the end of the talk he described some IP they have to handle cloud storage’s “eventual consistency“. Dumbfounded, I asked him to clarify, having never heard this term before. Apparently, eventual [...]
In a recent article from BBC on Should you store treasured data on (optical) disk the conclusion was that CDs and DVDs have significantly worse archive life than advertised or even suspected until recently. The study done by the French National Centre for Scientific Research discovered that the reliability of a few optical disks was [...]