Getting the absolute maximum performance from Flash-based storage and providing shared access across multiple servers typically requires a solid state storage appliance. These systems are designed specifically to eliminate bottlenecks and latency to deliver extreme performance. However, most of these…
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Highly Available Solid State Storage Performance
Tagged with: Flash, HA, RAID, Ramsan, Solid State, Texas Memory, Virtualization
Posted in Product Analysis
Posted in Product Analysis
What is a Storage Controller?
Storage arrays all have some form of a processor embedded into a controller. As a result, a storage array’s controller is essentially a server that’s responsible for performing a range of functions for the storage system. Think of it as…
Tagged with: Central processing unit, Controller, Data center, dual controller, Fibre Channel, RAID, Solid-state drive, SSD, storage array, Storage Controller, Storage Hypervisor, storage system, storage systems
Posted in Article
Posted in Article
OCZ SSD Keeps Shining
This is going to be one of those blog entries where “no news” is “the news.” Storage Switzerland started testing the OCZ Deneva 2 MLC based solid state disk (SSD) drives backup on July 25th and it has been working…
AKiTio Taurus Super Mini S
A new addition to the Storage Switzerland Lab is the AKiTio Super Mini S. This is a small, somewhat portable dual drive storage device that can either stripe or mirror two 2.5″ hard drives. While some assembly is required I…
Tagged with: Akitio, Backup, Booting, Hard disk drive, IEEE 1394, RAID, Solid-state drive, Standard RAID levels, Test Drive
Posted in Lab Report
Posted in Lab Report
What Is RAID – Part 1
This article on RAID – Part 1, is one of an ongoing series of articles in the Storage Switzerland “What Is” series. These articles provide a refresher on key fundamentals of various storage technologies, for those who are new to,…
What is I/O? – And Why Should You Care?
Recording data to a storage device requires two things, a place to put those bytes and a way to get them written to that device. Capacity is the first thing we think of when talking about a storage system, and…
Tagged with: Disk storage, Hard disk drive performance characteristics, Hardware, IOP, RAID, Storage, Subsystems
Posted in Article
Posted in Article
SSD, Heal Thyself!
It is a well known fact that each write takes a toll on the longevity of flash-based solid state storage (SSS), and that each particular module will eventually fail after reaching its write limit. Depending on the memory type that,…
Breaking The Top Four Myths Of Tape vs. Disk Backup
Over the past few years disk as a backup target has become a key enhancement to most backup infrastructures. Disk is believed to be faster, almost as cost-effective and more resilient. In reality tape has its own unique value in…
Tagged with: Backup, Data deduplication, Data Protection, disk backup, Hardware, RAID, Tape drive, Tape library, Virtual Tape Library
Posted in Article
Posted in Article
Nimble Storage Briefing Note
Nimble Storage is a convergence device of a different sort. Instead of focusing on unifying primary storage protocols, they are unifying primary storage, backups and disaster recovery into a single device. The goal is essentially to allow storage managers to…
Tagged with: Backup, CASL, Data corruption, ExecEvent, Flash memory, Nimble, Nimble Storage, RAID, Solid-state drive
Posted in Blog
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