Posts Tagged ‘Seagate’

Virtualisation: Learning The Hard Way

Virtualisation: Learning The Hard Way
They say that you learn the most when you make mistakes and things go wrong.  Well, last night I certainly must have learned a lot.  What started as a simple physical re-organisation of my hardware turned into a rebuild of my production VMware ESXi server – finishing at 1am.  Here’s what...
January 20th, 2010 | Featured, GestaltIT, Virtualisation | Read More

Enterprise Computing: Seagate Announces new Constellation Hard Drives

Seagate announced this week the release of their new Constellation hard drives. Compared to the Savvio range (which are high-performance, low form-factor), these drives are aimed at lower tier archiving solutions and will scale to 2TB. I had a briefing on these drives a couple of weeks ago and there’s...
February 4th, 2009 | Enterprise Storage, GestaltIT | Read More

Where's All the Data Gone?

Eric Savitz over at Tech Trader has an interesting article today. Demand at Seagate is down and consolidation of the industry is expected. However as recently as March last year EMC was telling us how storage growth just keeps on spiralling upwards. So what’s happening? Are we becoming inherently...
January 13th, 2009 | Uncategorized | Read More

New Seagate Savvio Drives

Seagate have announced the availability of the next generation of Savvio 2.5″ drives running at 15K. Capacity is increased to 146GB (I’m waiting for confirmation this is the case as there are no data sheets online yet). The capacity increase is overdue to keep up with the roadmap of...
November 5th, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

Whatever Happened to Hybrid Drives?

Over 18 months ago, I discussed in a post (here) the Hybrid Storage Alliance who were looking to increase the performance of hard drives by adding large amounts of flash to each device. But where are they now? A quick check on their website shows precious little information. In fact what’s on...
September 5th, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

How Many IOPS?

A question I get asked occasionally is; “How many IOPS can my RAID group sustain?” in relation to Enterprise class arrays. Obviously the first question is to determine what the data profile is, however if it isn’t known, then assume the I/O will be 100% random. If all the I/O is random,...
September 2nd, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

Recycling Drives – Update

Last week I posted about wasted hard drives, removed from arrays and crushed to prevent the leak of sensitive data. I contacted HGST and Seagate to get some additional background. Here are their responses, slightly edited to correct any spelling mistakes but otherwise intact. Seagate (a) when will...
July 23rd, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

Seagate Raises the Bar with 1.5TB Drive

Seagate announced yesterday version 11 of their Barracuda hard drive range, to be released next month (August 2008) with a maximum capacity of 1.5TB. The news link has all the speeds and feeds if you’re interested in how they have achieved this remarkable milestone. I’ve trawled the ‘net...
July 11th, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

The Case of Decimal v. Binary

We all know that disk drive manufacturers have been conning us for years with their definition of what constitutes a gigabyte. There are two schools of thought; the binary GB, which is 1024×1024x1024 or 1,073,741,824 bytes and the decimal GB which is quoted as 1000×1000x1000 or 1 billion...
November 5th, 2007 | Uncategorized | Read More

Analysis: Seagate

This is the first of a series of posts looking at storage companies and their investment potential. ** DISCLAIMER: This and related blog entries are for fun only and do not represent investment advice. You should make your own opinions on investments or consult a financial adviser ** Background Seagate’s...
October 29th, 2007 | Uncategorized | Read More
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