This report from Knowledge Networks shows that 2/3rds of 18-35 year-0lds in the U.S. carry a video-enabled mobile device. 23% of them carry an Apple video iPod, up from just 5% in 2006.
All of these video-enabled content consumers aren’t watching videos today. But their devices are ready for the inevitable shift in behavior that will [...]
September 4, 2009 - 1:45 pm
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By Pete Steege
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Posted in Cloud Storage, Consumer Storage, Trends
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Tagged Americans, Apple, Cheetah, constellation, data center, ipod, Knowledge Networks, mobile devices, savvio, Seagate, Servers, SSD, survey, US, video, video consumption
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There has been a lot of coverage of Seagate’s new Constellation family of enterprise disk drives, mostly leading with something about 2 TB. While the 2 TB capacity is newsworthy, Constellation is a much bigger deal than that capacity milestone.
Chris Mellor caught a glimpse of it. (UPDATE: fixed the broken Chris Mellor link. Thanks Chris Evans!) Here’s [...]
February 3, 2009 - 7:07 am
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By Pete Steege
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Posted in Data Center, Green, Products, Security
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Tagged 2 TB, 2.5", 3.5", barracuda es, Cheetah, constellation, Constellation ES, disk drive, encryption, enterprise, fde, full disk encryption, Pete Steege, SAS, sata, savvio, Seagate, Seagate Blogs, SED, self-encrypting drives
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Seagate announced a new generation of Cheetah 3.5″ enterprise drives in SAS and FC flavors. 2.5″ drives are the future of performance disk drives, but there’s no silver bullet for all enterprise storage needs.
Today’s high capacity applications are increasing storage space demands on data centers to levels never before seen.
When capacity is the priority, Cheetah’s 600 GB per [...]
January 15, 2009 - 1:05 pm
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By Pete Steege
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Posted in Data Center, IT Storage, Products, Trends
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Tagged 10K, 15K, 2008, capacity, Cheetah, data center, IDC, InfoStor, performance, Pete Steege, Seagate, Seagate Blogs
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Seagate and SAS/SATA flexibility get the nod for their Big Guns of Business platform
When it comes to storage, Tom’s Hardware gets it.
It’s not because they chose Seagate’s Cheetah 15K SAS and Barracuda ES SATA drives for their Big Guns of Business workstation platform. It’s that they understand the truly revolutionary benefits of SAS and SATA in [...]
Cool, but encryption is a kindler and gentler way to retire disk drives
Blocks and Files highlighted this very physical solution to a data management problem: how to be sure sensitive data on retired disk drives never again sees the light of day. It’s a do-it-yourself version of industrial disk crushers.
Verity’s quite excited about the Hard Drive Destroyer, and I know it fills [...]
Even best-in-class rebuild times expose data to hours of risk
Blocks and Files points to an Demartek study (sponsored by Pillar) showing that the Pillar Axiom 500 rebuild times are much shorter on high capacity arrays that similar EMC or NetApp systems.
The glaring data beyond Pillar’s performance, though, is the teeth-clenchingly long times that data is one drive failure away [...]
April 24, 2008 - 7:38 am
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By Pete Steege
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Posted in Backup, Data Center
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Tagged Axiom 500, Barraucuda ES, Blocks and Files, Cheetah, Demartek, EMC, NetApp, Pillar Data, RAID, RAID 5, RAID 6, savvio, Seagate
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Common-sense storage innovations slash storage energy use
Xyratex has taken a second step into the lower-power storage arena with the OneStor SP1224s that uses 2.5″ SAS drives. In February they added software to their RAID platform that allows OEMs to selectively spin down drives not in use.
Lisa Hart at Xyratex says “This is like having a light [...]
The Seagate Cheetah 15K.6 drive has higher performance and lower power consumption
There’s been lots of talk in the blogs about how SSDs are the future for performance storage in the enterprise. Absolutely! But that future is years away for broad adoption.
15K drives now, SSDs later
Today, 15K disk drives are powering the performance servers out there. Glad to see Seagate is upping the [...]
Enterprise drives now offer performance and capacity
Back in the day, high performance enterprise drives were all about performance, with little capacity to speak of. The performance is still there in spades, as you can see in this review. But maximum capacity has gone through the roof.
This is yet another sign of the sea change in business [...]
