Solid-state drives speed past data recovery techniques
07 April, 2011 by Simon SharwoodSolid-state disk drives are fast, use little power, get cheaper almost every day and are winning friends among all the big storage vendors. But the disks may also make it harder to use the last line of defence: data recovery. Simon Sharwood reports on the (mostly) upsides and downsides of data recovery using solid-state drives.
Storage tiering lowers overall IT costs
10 August, 2010 by Simon SharwoodHardware, storage management software and document management software all stake a claim for tiering duties claims Simon Sharwood. Storage tiering is a hot theme, and rightly so, because it can lower costs and is an important way to use the speed of solid state disks to your advantage.
Hitachi GST Z-Series Travelstar and CinemaStar drives
09 June, 2010 byHitachi GST has launched the 7 mm Z-Series range of ultra-slim and light z-height Travelstar and CinemaStar drives, the claimed highest capacity and fastest 7 mm 2.5″ drives that enable ultra-portable computers, CE devices and industrial systems.
Verbatim mobile hard drive
23 February, 2010 byThe Mobile Hard Drive is a portable 2.5″ hard drive, available in 320 and 500 GB capacities.
Dense disks make for smart storage
01 January, 2010 byDisk drives will soon reach 10 terabytes, but the storage industry is worrying about how these new drives will complicate storage, rather than rejoicing in extra capacity. Simon Sharwood explains the new technologies pushing disk capacity higher and explores why larger disks are not entirely good news.
Hitachi Ultrastar C15K147 and 15K600 hard drives
26 November, 2009Hitachi Global Storage Technologies has announced two Ultrastar 15,000 rpm hard drives: C15K147, a 2.5″ 6 Gbps serial attached SCSI (SAS) hard drive, and the 600 GB 15K600 3.5″ with either 6 Gbps SAS or 4 Gbps fibre channel arbitrated loop (FCAL) interfaces. The drives are industry compliant, self-encrypting and enterprise class.
Quantum disk-to-disk backup
25 November, 2009 byQuantum has released the DXi6500 series that integrates disk-to-disk backup and restores performance with all leading backup applications, using a simple NAS interface and the company’s deduplication technology.
Toshiba USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drives
25 November, 2009 byToshiba’s USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drives feature complete system backup (Windows only), password protection for added security and enhanced software features.
Mobile hard disk drive
15 September, 2009Hitachi Global Storage Technologies has announced that it is shipping its Travelstar 7K500, a 500 GB, 2.5″, 3 Gbps SATA drive designed for notebooks, gaming systems and professional external storage solutions. Combining performance, ruggedness and capacity, Travelstar 7K500 is suitable for multitasking, gaming and other graphic-intensive applications.
Small business storage
17 August, 2009 bySeagate has announced a portfolio of products designed to protect data for sustained business continuity and optimum uptime.
Two-terabyte hard disk drive
17 August, 2009 byHitachi Global Storage Technologies is shipping a 2 TB, 7200 rpm hard disk drive (HDD), the 2 TB Deskstar 7K2000 that blends high performance and high capacity with low power and other eco-friendly features designed to enable Energy-Star rated computers and other high-performance desktop systems.
3.5" hard drive
22 July, 2009 bySeagate has announced the availability of its Cheetah 15K.7 high-capacity, 3.5", mission-critical, enterprise-class hard drive for Tier 1 environments.
Hard drives
22 April, 2009 bySeagate has added two drives to its Cheetah enterprise-class hard drive family: the 15K.7 and the NS.2.
Disk libraries
02 April, 2009 byThe Disk Library 3D 1500 and 3000 are backup-to-disk libraries with data deduplication facilities, suitable for mid-size LAN-based environments.
SMB adopts disk-based backup
13 February, 2009 byLike many small and mid-size businesses, Australasian Merchandisers reached a point where its tape backup system no longer met its rising demands for data protection and disaster recovery. Australasian is an importer and distributor of stationery products in Australia. The computer systems supporting its business operations were storing increasing quantities of file and application data. It needed to protect this data and ensure its availability, but the tape backup system it used was slow and prone to failures.
