For the first time in Apple history, a Mac laptop doesn’t come along with OS recovery on a DVD. Instead, the software is found on a Apple-branded USB key. This certainly isn’t a surprising move considering MacBook Air has been without an optical drive from day one. The USB key is a super slim one [...]
LaCie is one of the few companies out there who consistently make products which are as nice to LOOK at as they are to use. Their latest wunderkind, the LaCie 2Big RAID storage solution – powered by none other than USB 3.0 – looks to continue this trend with an all metal design that is [...]
Asus may be better known for their netbooks and motherboards, but they occasionally take an interest in peripherals, namely the ‘Pulse Rate’ mouse and Eee Stick. For your consideration, they deliver the WX-DL Mouse. In the Sisyphean effort to build a better mouse, this is definitely an option, albeit not quite as one would hope. [...]
Forty years after the invention of the computer mouse, there’s apparently still room for improvement for this ubiquitous input device. The most revolutionary change is undoubtedly from mechanical to optical mouse. Now that the whole world is embracing touch controls and that Apple already has its own multi-touch mouse hybrid, SPEEDLINK is trying to catch [...]
Storage upgrade options made for just one particular laptop series are unheard of. But when it comes to Mac, it’s easy to see the reasons why the company goes after this lucrative market. The PhotoFast’s latest SSD upgrade kit for MacBook Air, called the GM2 SFV1 Air – is an ultimate performance storage upgrade as [...]
Following Space Bar and Spilt Stick, Quirky has come up yet another community-developed novelty USB gadget. This time, it’s the Contort, a USB 2.0 hub that gives you a net gain of three ports and that manages your USB cables at the same time. Most USB hubs (even the newer SuperSpeed USB models) can’t combat [...]
Above one can see a chart from our September SPECsfs2008 Performance Dispatch displaying the scatter plot of NFS Throughput Operations/Second vs. number of disk drives in the solution. Over the last month or so there has been a lot of Twitter traffic on the theory that benchmark results such as this and Storage Performance Council‘s SPC-1&2 [...]
At SNW, a couple of weeks back, SNIA annouced the coming out of their green storage initiative’s new SNIA Emerald Program and the first public draft release of their storage power efficiency test specification. Up until now, other than SPC and some pronouncements from EPA there hasn’t been much standardization activity on how to measure storage [...]
Chuck Hollis wrote a great post on “information logistics” as a new paradigm for IT centers to have to consider as they deploy applications around the globe and into the cloud. The problem is that there’s lot’s of data to move around in order to make all this work. Supercomputing’s Solution Big data/super computing groups [...]
I was talking with one large enterprise customer today and he was lamenting how poorly Oracle RMAN compressed backupsets dedupe. Apparently, non-compressed RMAN backup sets generate anywhere from 20 to 40:1 deduplication ratios but when they use RMAN backupset compression, their deduplication ratios drop down to 2:1. Given that RMAN compression probably only adds another [...]
I talked last week with some folks from Nimbus Data who were discussing their new storage subsystem. Apparently it uses eMLC (enterprise Multi-Level Cell) NAND SSDs for its storage and has no SLC (Single Level Cell) NAND at all. Nimbus believes with eMLC they can keep the price/GB down and still supply the reliability required [...]
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This week EMC releases NetWorker 7.6 SP1 with new Boost support for Data Domain (DD) appliances which allows NetWorker’s storage node (media server) and the DD appliance to jointly work on providing deduplication services. Earlier this year EMC DD announced the new Boost functionality which at the time only worked with Symantec’s OST interface. But with [...]
Home About the Micron Blog Oct 2010 04 Kirstin Bordner Comments 0 Hitachi-LG Data Storage Uses Micron 25nm NAND in New Hybrid Drive Micron today announced that our 25nm NAND is being used in a new all-in-one storage and media solution from Hitachi-LG Data Storage HLDS called Hybrid Drive . The innovations Micron has made in NAND flash memory continue to spark new and compelling end-product designs from our customers the Hybrid Drive being one of them . We wanted to learn a bit more about the Hybrid Drive , so we asked a few questions to HLDS’ Jack Lee , Senior Manager , and here’s what he had to : say What exactly is a Hybrid Drive How does this new product fit into the HLDS product line The Hybrid Drive is an Optical Disc Drive ODD with embedded NAND Flash memory , providing a combined