Choosing the Right Solid State Drive for Your Storage Network
Issues like wear leveling and your SAS or RAID controller will determine whether SSDs succeed in your storage networking environment.
Issues like wear leveling and your SAS or RAID controller will determine whether SSDs succeed in your storage networking environment.
There are many reliability and performance issues to consider before adding SSDs to your enterprise storage networking environment.
SSDs can improve database and file system performance, but there are a number of issues that need to be addressed to make the most of the pricey drives.
New technologies like phase change memory could make storage networks irrelevant unless the industry bands together to address I/O bottlenecks.
Enterprise storage columnist Henry Newman sees FCoE and SSD mergers coming, but there are no clouds in his forecast.
The digital future will require a level of file and data integrity that doesn't exist today, but there are some possible solutions.
Not only might NAS replace SAN in the coming world of Ethernet-based storage, but the distinctions between the two might also disappear.
Much has changed since storage networks first appeared and the biggest changes may be yet to come.
Bandwidth and data integrity issues could limit enterprise use of external storage clouds.
The long-running data storage technology could be headed for trouble. We look at the problem and potential solutions.
Some high-end data storage technologies could radically change your home PC in the not too distant future.
The storage world as we know it is about to change and not all RAID vendors are ready.
Recent steep drops in the price of 10Gb Ethernet NICs mean that Fibre Channel's decade-long dominance will soon be over.
File system benchmarks can be difficult to evaluate, creating tough choices for storage customers. We offer some tips on what to look for.
Even in tough times, there's more to data storage purchasing decisions than saving money.
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