November 19, 2009 – 9:37 am
Bigger is better in the disk drive world. But you might be surprised at how much better.
Robin Harris wrote a great piece on why high capacity drives offer much more [....]
By Pete Steege
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Posted in Notebook PC, Products, SSD
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Also tagged 500 GB, 500 gigabyte, 500GB, areal density, bigger, faster, laptop, low price, momentus, notebook, performance, price, Robin Harris, Seagate, short-stroke, size, speed, zdnet
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November 12, 2009 – 3:57 pm
The SSD angst continues around STEC’s recent announcement, EMC’s reduced demand forecast and the enterprise SSD market in general. Beth Parisseau interviewed [....]
By Pete Steege
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Posted in SSD
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Also tagged Beth Parisseau, EMC, enterprise, Flash, forecast, Gartner, hype cycle, Jeff Boles, maturity, Seagate, standards, STEC, Taneja Group, trough of disillusionment
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November 3, 2009 – 8:13 am
SSD is all the rage in the storage industry. Very exciting technology for sure and just now going Prime Time in the enterprise. But the rise of SSDs does [....]
By Pete Steege
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Posted in SSD, Technology, Trends
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Also tagged Carnegie Mellon, disk drive, Flash, hard drive, hdd, IEEE, IEEE Transactions, magnetics, Mark Kryder, Seagate, trends
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September 4, 2009 – 1:45 pm
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 [....]
By Pete Steege
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Posted in Cloud Storage, Consumer Storage, Trends
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Also tagged Americans, Apple, Cheetah, constellation, data center, ipod, Knowledge Networks, mobile devices, savvio, Seagate, Servers, survey, US, video, video consumption
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Birth is painful.
This universal truth is proving to be true for the nascent SSD netbook market.
Flash manufacturers have been struggling with losses due to depressed prices for a while now.
Prices are up! Good [....]
By Pete Steege
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Posted in Notebook PC, SSD, Technology, Trends
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Also tagged Ars Technica, disk drive, Flash, growth, increase, NAND, Netbook, new market, price, Samsung, Seagate, sensitivity, trend
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Disney and ASUS are introducing a Disney-branded netbook for the 6-12 year old demographic. It makes perfect sense:
Netbooks are (or can be) priced as a generous but [....]
By Pete Steege
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Posted in Companies, Notebook PC, Products, Trends
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Also tagged 160GB, Apple, ASUS, brand, content delivery, disk drive, Disney, entertainment, laptop, Netbook, OLPC, One Laptop Per Child, Pixar, price
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In StorageMojo’s analysis of the EMC bid to take Data Domain from NetApp, Robin Harris quoted Chuck Hollis of EMC on why the deal makes sense:
From a storage perspective, [....]
By Pete Steege
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Posted in IT Storage, SSD, Technology, Trends
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Also tagged Chuck Hollis, compression, costs, Data Domain, deduplication, disk drives, EMC, Flash, IT, linear access, NetApp, random access, Robin Harris, Seagate, StorageMojo, tape, trash compactor, trends, turbocharger
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I worked for StorageTek at the turn of the millenium, during the Tape Wars. EMC was saying “Tape is dead.” StorageTek claimed otherwise, and their steady tape business pretty much disproved [....]
By Pete Steege
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Posted in SSD, Technology, Trends, Uncategorized
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Also tagged Amara's Law, disk drive, EMC, Institute for the Future, Roy Amara, Seagate, StorageTek, tape, trends
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Dave Raffo says 3PAR didn’t add SSD in their latest product refresh because they didn’t need it – at least not yet, not in its current form.
In the same [....]
By Pete Steege
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Posted in Data Center, SSD, Trends
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Also tagged 3Par, Dave Raffo, enterprise, Evaluator Group, Flash, Pete Steege, reliability, Russ Fellows, Seagate, Seagate Blogs, SearchStorage, Servers, support, testing
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I found a bronzed model of a 5 1/4″ disk drive circa 1980. It got me thinking about how we’ve come from then to now.
Seagate created the first 5 1/4″ [....]
By Pete Steege
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Posted in Technology, Trends
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Also tagged 1980, 1983, 2.5", 3.5", 5.25", cost per MB, cost per megabyte, disk drive, Flash, format, future, history, Pete Steege, PrairieTek, Rodime, Seagate, Seagate Blogs, ST-506, trends, video
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