Tape vs. Disk, the saga continues
Updated: 2011-02-25 17:16:50
Was on a call late last month where Oracle introduced their latest generation T1000C tape system (media and drive) holding 5TB native (uncompressed) capacity. In the last 6 months I have been hearing about the coming of a 3TB SATA disk drive from Hitachi GST and others. And last month, EMC announced a new Data [...]
Dig out the old 386 and 486 desktop computers out of the garage we now have a use for them! Youtube user Fun to the Head has stuffed two 3.5 inch floppy drives and two 5.25 inch floppy drives into a vintage computer case, with the magic of a modern PIC microcontroller the system is [...]
Wednesday 23 February 2011 About Contact Sitemap Advertise Here News Feed Comments Feed Home Audio HDTV Images Misc PC Phone Software Featured Article Gadget Gifts Videos Movies Home PC hard drive hard drive Wednesday , February 23, 2011, 11:14 PC 10 views Add a comment I recently bought a casing for my laptop hard drive , so that I could transfer files from my laptop hard drive onto my PC because my laptop doesn’t work anymore . When I plug the hard drive and casing into my PC , it connects , but I can’t locate the new hard drive on my computer . Any ideas also , when I go to disk management , it doesn’t show . up and the hard drive is running , i can hear the disk spinning and the blue light is on , showing that the hard drive is . connected the hard drive shows up in the BIOS
We return to our monthly examination of storage performance, and this month’s topic is Exchange 2010 performance comparing results from the latest ESRP v3.0 (Exchange Solution Review Program). This latest batch is for the 1K-and-under mailbox category and the log playback chart above represents the time it takes to process a 1MB log file and [...]
Check out the winter 2011 Server and StorageIO news letter including links to various content and industry commentary.
I have blogged about the poor deduplication ratios seen when using Oracle 10G RMAN compression before (see my prior post) but not everyone uses compressed backupsets. As such, the question naturally arises as how well RMAN non-compressed backupsets deduplicate. RMAN backup types Oracle 10G RMAN supports both full and incremental backups. The main potential for deduplication would [...]
Read an article in this month’s IEEE Spectrum on providing direct current (DC) power distribution to consumers. Apparently various groups around the world are preparing standards to provide 24-V DC and 380-V DC power distribution to home and office. Why DC is good It turns out that most things electronic today (with the possible exception of [...]
I was reading a book the other day and it suggested that sometime in the near future we will all have a personal medical record archive. Such an archive would be a formal record of every visit to a healthcare provider, with every x-ray, MRI, CatScan, doctor’s note, blood analysis, etc. that’s ever done to [...]