Would you pay $200 for Thunderbolt?
The first pricing for Thunderbolt add-ons is out and it ain't pretty. Fast as it is, is it worth $200?
Storage Bits
Storage is what makes a computer your computer. Robin Harris writes about storage and other tech with a focus on the SOHO/SMB market. And fun stuff, too, like PS3 supercomputers and Google's technology.
Robin Harris
Robin Harris has been messing with computers for over 30 years and selling and marketing data storage for over 20 in companies large and small.
Ricardo Bilton
Ricardo Bilton writes for ZDNet's The ToyBox.
Latest Posts
Google's Megastore: global storage for the Internet
Megastore handles 3 billion writes and 20 billion reads daily on 8 PB of data across the globe supporting millions of users of Google Apps. How does it work?
Amazon's experience: fault tolerance and fault finding
Fault-tolerant architectures have risks that are magnified by natural human tendencies. A new Google paper hints at the larger issues.
Toshiba's new 19nm flash
Toshiba has announced 19nm NAND flash. Does this mean that even smaller feature sizes are on tap?
And then there were 3
Seagate's takeover of Samsung's disk operations - means there are only 3 hard drive vendors - WD, Seagate and Toshiba - left in the world. What does that mean to you?
Thunderbolt storage surprises at NAB '11
Thunderbolt is off to a promising start at NAB '11. Vendor support and product range is greater than expected.
Why SSDs won't replace disks
It's simple: we don't produce enough flash to replace more than a few percent of today's disk capacity. But drive vendors would be foolish to take comfort in that fact. They are still in a world of hurt.
Making America strong - one family at a time
An innovative pilot program at the Department of Family Security: using GPS tracking, credit card transactions, data mining and massive storage, they can warn you that your marriage is in trouble.
5 things I hate about Mac storage - that Lion won't fix
Apple gives the best user experience in the business - which is why I own 5 Macs - but their storage mojo stinks. Here's the 5 worst things about Mac storage.
SSD security: the worst of all worlds
Data security on SSDs is a mess. Good luck removing data! Preserve it for digital forensics? Uh-oh. Secure erase might work, but it that good enough?