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HP Goes to Extremes in Petabyte Storage
1 week, 3 days ago
Hewlett-Packard is poised to push out a high-capacity storage box aimed at enterprises in need of massive, scalable data storage -- potentially even beating EMC to the punch. -
Will Seagate go to War Over Flash Drives?
1 month, 3 weeks ago
It could be dismissed as mere saber rattling by the old guard protecting its turf. Still, when the CEO of a major vendor starts talking litigation, the threat has to be taken seriously. -
2008: The Future of Solid State Storage
4 months ago
In addition to HDTV's, solid state storage drives made their way to CES as well, albeit in limited quantity. There was a lot of speculation on the show floor regarding SSD and companies were loaded with far-fetched answers. However, we can't blame them for our insistence on them predicting the future of SSD going forward. -
Victory For Flash as Hitachi Cans Tiny Hard Disks
4 months, 1 week ago
Hitachi is kissing production of its smallest hard drive disks goodbye, citing poor sales and the increasing shift to flash technology when it comes to demand for mobile device storage. -
Automatically mounting and unmounting Samba/Windows shares with CIFS
9 months, 3 weeks ago
At my work the employees are in the fortunate position that they are free to choose whatever OS they want to work with. The only thing that's banned (unofficially) so far is Windows Vista. In such a heterogeneous environment it makes sense to share our files through Samba. It's one of the few protocols that any OS can speak. If you're running Windows Server 2003 then you can't use the smbfs driver that most Linux distributions ship by default. You'll need to use the CIFS filesystem driver and you'll need to edit /etc/fstab. Adding the required fstab entries is actually quite easy as I will show, but on Debian and it's derivative distributions you get a nasty "CIFS VFS: No response" error when you subsequently try to reboot or shutdown your machine. I will show you how to get rid of that too. -
Western Digital tear it up with 2TB HDs
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Storage junkies will sleep a little easier from now on, safe in the knowledge that their insatiable capacity requirements are to be met by Western Digital (WD) and its 2TB My Book hard drive range. -
How to setup Network attached Storage
10 months ago
Reeshma Ajin writes "Network-attached storage (NAS) is a dedicated data storage technology. The NAS server provides centralized data storage, which is easily accessible to users who belong to different networks over the Internet. There are different applications that can be implemented using NAS, such as data storage and file sharing. The purpose of the NAS server that I am going to set up, is that of data storage. It is to be used to provide remote backup of the data in clients’ servers." -
Samba Adopts GPLv3 for Future Releases
10 months, 1 week ago
After internal consideration in the Samba Team we have decided to adopt the GPLv3 and LGPLv3 licences for all future releases of Samba. -
Seagate's first 1-terabyte drive to debut this fall
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Seagate Technology is serving up its first 1-terabyte hard drive. -
Sony sued over Blu-ray
11 months, 4 weeks ago
Given its global position as an electronics giant, Sony is quite familiar with patent law and the potential penalties for infringement. -
32GB solid state disk comes to UK notebooks
12 months ago
Samsung's 32GB solid state notebook drive is now available in the UK through distributor Just Rams, the company said on Tuesday. -
Pioneer pitches cut-price Blu-ray Disc drive
1 year ago
Pioneer has launched its bid to dominate the Blu-ray Disc drive business with a drive set to retail for just €250 ($340/£170) including taxes. The catch: it's a read-only drive, at least as far as HD media go. -
New standard to curb data corruption on drives
1 year ago
The International Disk Drive, Equipment and Materials Association has finalized a standard that, ideally, will make it easier to find errors on hard drives. -
Hitachi ships its terabyte drive
1 year ago
If you've got $399 and a burning need to store 1 terabyte of data, Hitachi has the drive for you. -
SanDisk and Hynix buddy up
1 year, 1 month ago
SanDisk and Hynix Semiconductor have reached a patent cross-licensing agreement covering Flash memory products from both companies and have come to terms over production supply. - More News
Linux.com : Storage
Using spindown to prolong the life of old hard disks
Many people leave their computers on around the clock. This usually implies that all the attached hard disks are always spinning. Constantly spinning up a hard disk normally increases the chances of drive failure. When a disk is not powered it should last longer than if it was spinning. There is a delicate balance between having a hard disk spinning down and up too frequently and leaving it spinning around the clock. If you have a filesystem that you want to have near instant access to but do so on an infrequent basis, you might like to use spindown to automatically spin down the disk containing that filesystem after you have finished accessing the drive.
eCos real-time OS makes short work of building a SAN appliance
Compellent has been shipping its SAN appliances to small to medium-sized companies for three years, growing from $4 million in annual sales to more than $23 million last year. Part of the reason for that growth, says cofounder John Guider, is that Compellent executives have recognized the value of making an open source operating system one of the building blocks of the company's SAN offerings.
FreeNAS makes it easy to add storage to home networks
FreeNAS is a small, powerful, full-featured implementation of FreeBSD as a network-attached storage device. (It also happens to be January's Project of the Month at SourceForge.net.) If you're a Linux user like me, the BSD-speak used for devices and such might give you pause, but other than that small caveat, installation and usage shouldn't be a problem. It's powerful enough to be used in the enterprise, but it's friendly enough so that even a typical home office user can take advantage of it. Here's how I created an easy-to-use NAS device for rsync backups and FTP server on my LAN.
Reduce network storage cost, complexity with ATA over Ethernet
Today, Fibre Channel is the dominant enterprise storage technology, but as with all technologies, eventually something better comes along. If you're lucky, that something is also less complex and less expensive. For storage, that something may be ATA over Ethernet (AoE), a simple and open network protocol that allows storage to be accessed over Ethernet. Here's how you can set up a test server to provide shared storage using AoE.
A look at the FreeNAS server
FreeNAS, an open source NAS server, can convert a PC into a network-attached storage server. The software, which is based on FreeBSD, Samba, and PHP, includes an operating system that supports various software RAID models and a Web user interface. The server supports access from Windows machines, Apple Macs, FTP, SSH, and Network File System (NFS), and it takes up less than 16MB of disk space on a hard drive or removable media.
Add network storage with NASLite
Network-attached storage (NAS) offers an alternative to traditional fileservers by creating systems designed specifically for data storage. A NAS box generally runs an embedded operating system (OS) rather than a full-fledged network OS, and it requires no monitor, keyboard, or mouse. One of the simplest NAS setups is Server Elements' NASLite.
Studio adds Lustre to Harry Potter films
Framestore CFC, the animation studio responsible for much of the eerie special effects work in the latest installment of the Harry Potter film series, "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," uses fast, powerful Intel-based Linux clusters in its render farm, but it was still running into problems because of bottlenecks with its Network File System servers. Accio Lustre -- an open source cluster file system called Lustre helped feed the studio's prodigious I/O appetite at a price point that keeps it competitive with larger organizations.
How GNU/Linux and Serial ATA RAID teamed up to save money
Recently Mailroute, a company that provides virus and spam filtering for businesses, switched its GNU/Linux-based servers from SCSI to Serial ATA disks and saved itself a lot of money. The switchover wouldn't have been possible without Broadcom's new SATA RAID (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks) controller, the RAIDCore BC4852.
OpenIB Alliance: Broad range of companies have broader hopes for InfiniBand
<ed by cp 6.22> Representatives of the OpenIB Alliance, launched recently with funding from Intel and aimed at unifying efforts to build on the InfiniBand high-performance computing interconnect technology, stress that their goal of a single software stack for deploying InfiniBand is intended for multiple operating systems, including Windows, HP-UX, AIX, and Linux.
