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Category Archives: Storage Technology
SSD Tiering versus Caching: Part 2
A while back I wrote about some of the differences between caching and tiering when using solid state disk (SSD) drives in a PC or server. Having just returned from the 2011 Flash Memory Summit in Santa Clara, I feel … Continue reading
Posted in Servers, Storage Technology
Tagged intel SRT, microtiering, server caching, server tiering, ssd caching, ssd tiering, VMware
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Snapshot and Full Image Backup for Windows Home Server
One of the short comings of the original 32 bit Windows Home Server (WHS) for me was the lack of any built in tools to backup the primary WHS boot drive. While using a RAID 1 boot drive would protect … Continue reading
Posted in Servers, Storage Technology
Tagged backup, full image backup, snapshot, system drive backup, VMware ESXi, whs, windows home server
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Loving Personal Cloud Storage with SugarSync
I love simple-to-use technology, being a great advocate of the KISS principle. I could write a thesis on how many times I’ve seen engineers and marketers create funky steps in products to do the most basic things, usually because not … Continue reading
Posted in Storage Technology
Tagged cloud drive, cloud storage, iphone photo share, sugarsync
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Will Traditional Disk Array Vendors Survive?
The more you look at how SAN disk array systems are evolving, the more you start to wonder how traditional disk array systems vendors can survive long term without a significant change in their business model. What’s been a business … Continue reading
SSD Caching versus Tiering
In some recent discussions, I sensed there is some confusion around solid state device (SSD) storage used as a storage tier vs, a cache. While there are some similarities and both are intended to achieve the same end result i.e. … Continue reading
Cloudy Server Growth
Infoworld recently posted an interesting article (The numbers don’t lie — cloud computing boosts server sales) about how server market revenues have increased by around 11 percent in the second quarter of 2010, with quarterly revenues coming in around $10.9 … Continue reading
Windows Home Server to the Rescue
I have now been running WHS since Dec 2007 on a small self-built VIA based ITX system, chosen because it was small and ran on much lower power and generated less heat and noise than a conventional PC or low … Continue reading
Intel Patsburg and Software RAID
I just got done reading the “Intel eats crow on software RAID” writeup from the The UK Register. On one side I’m really happy to see that server based software RAID (or Virtual RAID Adapters, VRAs, as we called them … Continue reading