onstorage

New Samsung 1TB Data Storage Unit

Filed in archive Announcement on July 21, 2010

New Samsung 1TB Data Storage Unit
© half_empty
Samsung has officially released the new data storage unit called Spinpoint MT2. Spinpoint MT2 is a 1TB 2.5inch internal hard drive ideal for consumers to store a range of media. This includes digital TV recording, storing music and digital photos. The product has been specifically made to accommodate for the new kinds of media that customers are consuming.

According to the makers, the Spinpoint MT2 will have better performance and reliability compared to other brands. Not only will this hard drive perform better, but Samsung have designed the item to ensure minimal noise as many other brands with 1TB hard drives tend to create a lot of noise.

You can start ordering your Spinpoint MT2, however official prices have not been released yet.

comment!
(0)
vote!
(7.0/10)
e-mail!
Bookmark
img Addthis
img Ask
img Blinklist
img del.icio.us
img Digg
img Fark
img Facebook
img Google
 img Lycos
img Ma.gnolia
Add this page to Mister Wong Mr Wong
img Netscape
img Netvousz
img Newsvine
img Reddit
img StumbleUpon
 img Slashdot
img Tailrank
img Technorati
img Wink
img Yahoo

New Samsung 1TB Data Storage Unit

Filed in archive Announcement on July 21, 2010

New Samsung 1TB Data Storage Unit
© half_empty
Samsung has officially released the new data storage unit called Spinpoint MT2. Spinpoint MT2 is a 1TB 2.5inch internal hard drive ideal for consumers to store a range of media. This includes digital TV recording, storing music and digital photos. The product has been specifically made to accommodate for the new kinds of media that customers are consuming.

According to the makers, the Spinpoint MT2 will have better performance and reliability compared to other brands. Not only will this hard drive perform better, but Samsung have designed the item to ensure minimal noise as many other brands with 1TB hard drives tend to create a lot of noise.

You can start ordering your Spinpoint MT2, however official prices have not been released yet.

comment!
(0)
vote!
(10.0/10)
e-mail!
Bookmark
img Addthis
img Ask
img Blinklist
img del.icio.us
img Digg
img Fark
img Facebook
img Google
 img Lycos
img Ma.gnolia
Add this page to Mister Wong Mr Wong
img Netscape
img Netvousz
img Newsvine
img Reddit
img StumbleUpon
 img Slashdot
img Tailrank
img Technorati
img Wink
img Yahoo

Seen that? - ISCSI vs. FC performance A closer look

Filed in archive Best of on June 5, 2010

ISCSI vs. FC performance A closer look On Storage

Seen that? - ISCSI vs. FC performance A closer look
ISCSI vs. FC performance: A closer look: What weighs more: one pound of bricks or one pound of Feathers? Which is faster: 2 Gb FC or 1 Gb Ethernet? Hint: Both questions have the same answer. A very interesting post from Tony Asaro. I haven't yet had any experience with iSCSI, so I'm really not in a position to have much of an opinion. My git tells me that iSCSI will inherently [...] Read More


SNIA lab shows iSCSI is for real On Storage

Techworld.com - SNIA lab shows iSCSI is for real: I don't know about you, but I've been hearing about iSCSI from vendors for years now. I've always steered away from it, preferring to stick with either pure fibre attached into a SAN, or ether attached into a NAS (using NFS mostly, occasionally CYFS/SMB). iSCSI always looked attractive, but I could never really bring myself to invest the time and effort into trying [...] Read More


An iSCSI primer On Storage

An iSCSI primer: I believe it [iSCSI] to have a very bright future, especially with 10-Gb Ethernet on the way and the significant difference in acquisition costs between a complete iSCSI installation and a similar fibre channel setup. I think 10Gb will be the tipping point for IP vs fibre based technologies - at my day job, we went SAN because of performance. It didn't fit our main application model, we've [...] Read More


High CEO pay = low returns Sox First

We've all heard the arguments justifying soaring CEO pay. They say it's all about motivating, recruiting and retaining talented executives. Otherwise they will go elsewhere.A new study Performance for pay? The relationship between CEO incentive compensation and future stock price performance from academics at the University of Utah and Purdue University show that's just crap.The researchers looked at 1500 companies that extended incentive compensation to their CEOs between 1994 [...] Read More


Does pay for performance pay? Sox First

Interesting findings from Mercer Human Resource Consulting which reveals that the number of CEOs receiving option grants is slipping and there has been a decrease in those receiving restricted stock grants. However, the number of CEOs performance shares, including performance-contingent restricted stock, was up sharply. So there is a bigger focus by shareholders on performance pay.But is it delivering results?As the Mercer report says, investors continue to be unhappy with [...] Read More

comment!
(0)
vote!
(6.0/10)
e-mail!
Bookmark
img Addthis
img Ask
img Blinklist
img del.icio.us
img Digg
img Fark
img Facebook
img Google
 img Lycos
img Ma.gnolia
Add this page to Mister Wong Mr Wong
img Netscape
img Netvousz
img Newsvine
img Reddit
img StumbleUpon
 img Slashdot
img Tailrank
img Technorati
img Wink
img Yahoo

Seen that? - Avoiding storage virtualization for dummies

Filed in archive Best of on May 26, 2010

Avoiding storage virtualization for dummies On Storage

Seen that? - Avoiding storage virtualization for dummies
Avoiding storage virtualization for dummies - Computerworld: Users continue to avoid network-based block virtualization like the plague. Yet what I can't understand is why you would implement a storage-area network (SAN) without it. It's akin to implementing a WAN without a routing table. SAN virtualization can lower storage costs, simplify SAN management and allow users to replicate and migrate data between different tiers of storage. But if you plan to continue [...] Read More


Virtualization: Great or Ghastly? On Storage

So which is it - is storage virtualization the best thing to hit the industry or just another tool that could cause you more problems than it's worth? The experts (in particular, one Dr. Kevin McIsaac with Intelligent Business Research Services) say server virtualization is one of the best IT infrastructure developments to hit the industry of late, but that doesn't mean storage virtualization shares the same reputation. McIsaac has [...] Read More


One Click Storage Integration for Server Virtualization On Storage

Virtualization is a huge topic area these days and this live tech talk should be informative. Speakers from IDC, Citrix, and NetApp will show you how to use XenServer as the foundation for your virtual infrastructure. Building on that foundation with NetApp, this talk plans on helping your realize the promise of a vitualized environment with effective one click storage adapter. Listen and participate (I'm trying to slice out time) [...] Read More


Virtualization - why ?? Tech Intelligence

In the old days, a new server was bought for every application you could think of. Data centers were full of hardware, sometimes critical hardware was on the floor with the cables coming out of the racks, threatening bot business and the manager but still running that superimportant application that made all the money.... Today's *hot* word is virtual. About ten years back companies started to use servers for several applications, [...] Read More


Is virtualization the latest religion ? Tech Intelligence

I have written about virtualization before here, but I would like to take the discussion one step up. All hardware and software manufacturers treat virtualization as if it is the latest religion in IT land - if you don't get it, you are not a serious player. Trends, I call it. Why ? Well, I would like to pose another question : Why virtualization ? I can't answer it. And [...] Read More

comment!
(0)
vote!
(7.8/10)
e-mail!
Bookmark
img Addthis
img Ask
img Blinklist
img del.icio.us
img Digg
img Fark
img Facebook
img Google
 img Lycos
img Ma.gnolia
Add this page to Mister Wong Mr Wong
img Netscape
img Netvousz
img Newsvine
img Reddit
img StumbleUpon
 img Slashdot
img Tailrank
img Technorati
img Wink
img Yahoo

Seen that? - Helping Storage Admins Write Bad Checks

Filed in archive Best of on May 16, 2010

Helping Storage Admins Write Bad Checks On Storage

Seen that? - Helping Storage Admins Write Bad Checks
Helping Storage Admins Write Bad Checks. - DaveBlog A Sun employee, an EMC employee and a NetApp employee are all at the funeral of a mutual friend. The Sun employee says, "We have a tradition at Sun. If someone dies, we put ten dollars into their coffin," and he drops in a ten dollar bill. The EMC employee says, "At EMC our tradition is to put $100 in their coffin," and he [...] Read More


An introduction to thin provisioning On Storage

An introduction to thin provisioning: One of the more important but often misunderstood advancements within data storage is thin provisioning. This article defines and discusses thin provisioning, its economic impact and how it works. A great introduction to a concept that I've not previously seen examined - Just In Time enterprise-wide storage capacity planning. [...] Read More


ZFS and Thin Provisioning On Storage

ZFS and Thin Provisioning: I'm really liking the sound of ZFS for a few things we have coming up at work - not sure how well it will fit in with whatever technology mix we're going to get inflicted on us, but still... interesting. [...] Read More


Write a Book, Write Online, Take the Chance The Social Networking Weblog

Fellow blogger Adrienne Zurub has written a book. It's only been out a few months but it's already been sold out on Amazon. Congratulations Adrienne! The sad part about her book coming out is that she was promptly fired from her offline job as a nurse. It could be because she talks about her job in the book. She described how doctors treat nurses and talks about some of the [...] Read More


True Hires ex-Bush Aide to Seek Safety Checks The Dating Weblog

PALM BEACH POST -- Apr 16 -- True has hired a well-connected lobbyist from Tampa --- former Secretary of the Department of Management Services Cynthia Henderson --- to push the background checks measure. True routinely rejects 5% of possible daters identified as felons. Rapsheetsasserts that the checks are derived from 17 different public records sources but the DOC database hasn't been updated since August, and rapsheets.com searches only 16 of the state's 67 counties. [...] Read More

comment!
(0)
vote!
(7.0/10)
e-mail!
Bookmark
img Addthis
img Ask
img Blinklist
img del.icio.us
img Digg
img Fark
img Facebook
img Google
 img Lycos
img Ma.gnolia
Add this page to Mister Wong Mr Wong
img Netscape
img Netvousz
img Newsvine
img Reddit
img StumbleUpon
 img Slashdot
img Tailrank
img Technorati
img Wink
img Yahoo
Share It
Popular posts from our other blogs:
RSSrss
See all blog subscribe options
Google google
What is RSS?
Yahoo! yahoo
Addthis Subscribe using any feed reader!
Bloglines Bloglines
TwitterFollow us on Twitter!