Seven attempts to speed processing with faster storage
Storage array enhancements used to be simple; a faster drive led to faster arrays. But memory-like protocols and drives have muddied the water, and hardware-enhanced drive and array controllers...
What madness is this? WD 5400 rpm 8TB drives sound like faster 7200 rpm...
Reddit threadsters are suggesting that certain 5400rpm 8TB Western Digital drives are actually rotating faster, at 7200rpm, and they are citing startup sound profiles as evidence.
Update: WD response added...
Arm speeds up compute-on-storage with 64-bit Cortex-R
Arm has released the 64-bit, Linux-capable Cortex-R82 processor, designed specifically for compute-on-storage drives.
Update; GPU supplier Nvidia buys Arm. 14 September 2020.
Such drives run stored data task-specific apps, to offload...
Fujitsu resells Qumulo to mine, manage and refine data
Fujitsu is reselling Qumulo’s parallel access filesystem products, giving its enterprise customers the option to manage petabyte-scale unstructured file data.
Olivier Delachapelle, Head of Category Management, Product Sales Europe...
Seagate’s IronWolf howls out three NASty drives
Seagate has launched three IronWolf NAS drives - an 18TB range-topping disk and two SATA interface SSDs.
Update: IronWolf Pro and Pro 125 sequential write performance differences explained. 2 Sep...
This week in storage, featuring Liqid, Snowflake Computing, Ceph and a sausage factory and...
This roundup discusses the seemingly outlandish Ceph and a sausage factory, as well as comparability startup Liqid getting a brace of supercomputer contracts and Panasas giving Spectrum Scale the...
NetApp posts strong Q1, plots big re-organisation
NetApp has pulled off a strong first quarter, posting revenues up five per cent y/y to $1.3bn and net income of $77m.
CEO George Kurian said yesterday: “In the face...
HPE storage revenues recover but are still down
HPE’s third fy21 quarter storage revenues of $1.13bn recovered from the Covid-19 beating they took in Q2 but are still down 10 per cent year-on-year.
A huge order backlog was...
Seagate readies 18TB IronWolf NAS drive for mid-September launch
Some online retailers are listing an unannounced 18TB Seagate IronWolf Pro NAS disk drive.
For example, Sweden’s Data Byran is one emailer listing the drive, pricing it at 6,990 kronor...
Enterprise SSDs cost ten times more than nearline disk drives
Nearline drives remain the sweet spot in the HDD market - and a key reason is that the 10x price premium that enterprise SSDs command remains stubbornly high and...
WD and Seagate in 18TB disk drive drag race
Western Digital was late to market with 16TB Ultrastar nearline disk drives, gifting Seagate an opportunity for its 16TB Exos drives. The arch-rivals are now in a...
Western Digital’s ePMR is stopgap HDD technology
Seagate began shipping 16TB Exos nearline drives in June last year, before Western Digital had even announced its own 16TB drive tech. It took another eleven months for WD...