Backblaze pours cold water on immersion cooling for most disk drive setups
Iceotope has demonstrated immersion cooling of disk drives and reckons it could enable fewer drive failures and lower total cost of ownership. A Backblaze technologist isn't convinced.
Backblaze, which provides...
Back up a minute: Backblaze on SMR, storage tiers, and Web3
Blocks and Files talked to Gleb Budman, co-founder and CEO of cloud storage supplier Backblaze, well known for providing helpful reports detailing reliability statistics on the drives used in...
Backblaze predicts HDD prices will fall to 1¢/GB by mid-2025
Disk drive price falls in $/GB terms are continuing at a slower rate than before but are set to reach one US cent per GB, according to Backblaze.
This is...
Pure talks up all-flash in sustainability report as datacenter world awaits regulation
Pure Storage has released a sustainability report claiming its products can help datacenters use less electricity, pressing the pressure points of customers that want to hit carbon emissions targets...
UUID
UUID - Every disk drive has a UUID, a Universal Unique Identifier, which is a 128-bit hexadecimal number, generated buy a standard method, and used to identify objects or...
Xinnor CEO on its high-speed RAID software and disks, DPUs, ZFS, ZNS, SMR and...
Blocks & Files wanted to look more deeply into Xinnor’s claims about its faster-than-RAID-hardware software for NVMe SSDs, xiRAID, particularly in light of its performance tests results. We questioned Dmitry...
Arcitecta promises data recovery for billions of files in seconds or less
Australia-based Arcitecta has developed a product which provides continuous inline data protection for files and objects with zero RTO and near zero RPO, and rollback in milliseconds to any...
Liquid disk drive cooling: much ado about nothing
Iceotope has announced its liquid cooling system for disk drives – which, on examination, doesn't do much at all.
The news came out on the first day of December that,...
HPE sees no recession as revenues rise
HPE recorded strong quarterly revenues with little sign of any slowdown affecting the next quarter’s business, unlike NetApp. Storage did moderately well but there was a 70 percent rise...
NetApp cuts costs as economic clouds gather
NetApp set a record for second quarter revenues but is cutting costs in anticipation of lower customer spending and economic headwinds.
Revenues for the period ended October 28 were $1.66...
Web3 storage needs to ditch cryptocurrency
Analysis: Decentralized storage – the Web3 concept – will fail unless it deals with seven issues that are stopping its growth.
Web3 storage or dStorage (decentralized storage) is deliberately not...
PC sales dive hits Dell’s quarterly revenues
Dell PC sales took a dive in the third 2022 quarter, taking Dell’s overall revenues down with them, although the datacenter business managed to grow.
Client Solutions Group (CSG) revenues...