Storage

I was chatting with my friend John Batdorf the other day…
[EDIT: Actually it was several days ago, because I lost this post twice and didn’t realize it was not already here, so it’s being posted again late - But I’ve made some edits below to include more info from him]
…about home Network Attached Storage (NAS) […]

I’ve been reading early reports about Microsoft’s upcoming Windows Home Server with more than a passing interest. I won’t bore you with all the speeds and feeds, which you can get yourself from Microsoft’s WHS Web site. I think it’s a brilliant idea that will finally address the issue of the ever-growing amount of digital […]

The major hard drive manufacturers have all decided to back hybrid drive technology which employs NAND flash memory as an enhancement to their rotating media devices. All spurred by Microsoft’s ReadyDrive initiative for the Vista operating system. They’ve formed the Hybrid Storage Alliance.
The objective of the technology is to provide near instantaneous booting of a […]

Corsair, a worldwide leader in high performance computer products, today announced the immediate availability of the Corsair Flash Readout USB drive in new 4GB and 8GB capacities. The Corsair Flash Readout USB drive takes the benefits of USB Flash drives one step further by allowing users to label the drive with personal IDs and showing […]

Research from Ontrack Data Recovery reveals one in four USB stick owners has lost data.
The research, conducted among 400 professionals worldwide, also revealed that 65 percent of professionals own at least one USB-stick. However, their compact size leads many people to store their sticks incorrectly - in suit pockets or bags - leaving valuable confidential […]

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Low cost Accordance ARAID line provides drop-in RAID1 hard disk data protection for Windows, Mac or Linux PCs.
Newegg.com and Accordance Systems announced today the availability of industry leading ARAID RAID storage products solutions at Newegg.com. The companies have entered into a sales and marketing agreement to promote ARAID products for IT and home users needing […]

Recently I had a client who was looking for an alternative to the horror of trying to retrieve important files while being on the computer that did not have them stored there at the time. So, being the sort of guy that I am, I started to lay out some options for him.
As our conversation […]

I continue to read technical stories about storage on non-mainframe platforms. I read how the needs of the user are difficult to predict. How we cannot back up all of our data efficiently. How we cannot recover data. How the growth of data is hard to explain and many other storage-related concerns.
As a mainframer for […]