Source: wikipedia.org
There have been cracks forming in the veneer of the netbook story, such as those spotted by CRNtech:
Feature creep
Wide variation in performance, depending on the OS
Disappointing battery [....]
By Pete Steege
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Posted in Notebook PC, Trends
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Also tagged battery life, disk drive, feature creep, Gartner, hype curve, hype cycle, Netbook, OS, requirements, Seagate, storage, trough of disillusionment, Ubuntu, windows
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7200 rpm notebook hard drives used to be a luxury, something for the power user.
That’s no longer the case. 7200 rpm drives are quicly becoming the best choice for mainstream [....]
By Pete Steege
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Posted in Notebook PC, Products
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Also tagged 500 GB, 7200 rpm, benchmarks, disk drive, Everest Ultimate, Hitachi 5400, i4u, laptop, momentus, notebook, performance, review, Sandra XII, Seagate
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February 24, 2009 – 5:00 am
Seagate’s new CEO Steve Luczo talked with InfoWorld about reducing data center power, storage and the economy, small businesses and cloud storage, and slower-than expected market adoption of SSD.
SSD will [....]
By Pete Steege
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Posted in Cloud Storage, SSD
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Also tagged cloud storage, data center, economy, Pete Steege, Seagate, Seagate Blogs, small business, SSD, Steve Luczo, tape
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November 11, 2008 – 1:33 pm
SSDs will be an almost ideal addition to enterprise storage systems. Notebooks? Not so much.
1. Many drives vs. one drive. SSDs replace multiple disk drives in high-end enterprise systems. Notebooks [....]
By Pete Steege
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Posted in Data Center, Notebook PC, SSD
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Also tagged battery life, disk drive, enterprise, Flash, laptop, notebook, performance, SSD, storage
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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. [....]
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! [....]
