50 ways to lose your data
Apologies to Paul SimonDisk drives are marvelous devices. Especially when they go "clunk" and stop working.
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.
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How data gets lost
Our perception of risk and the reality of risk are often two different things. For example, are computer viruses or system glitches more likely to hose your data?
Flash drives: your mileage WILL vary
Flash is an alien technology for disk users. I've noted before that flash drives can have really terrible write performance, but until I ran into it myself I had no idea how bad flash write performance could be.
Google's warehouse-size power problem
Power to the internet!Beginning 5 years ago, Google took the lead in making a power consumption an issue for IT vendors.
Sorry about your broken RAID 5
You didn't know?I'm sorry I was the one to tell you that RAID 5 is broken today and will be well and truly broken in 2009 (see Why RAID 5 stops working in 2009), but somebody had to do it.
Why RAID 5 stops working in 2009
The storage version of Y2k? No, it's a function of capacity growth and RAID 5's limitations.
Who makes the best hard drives?
I'm just hoping to avoid the worstVendors and large users won't tell us who makes the best hard drives. So I decided to figure it for myself.
Disk drive life depends on . . . luck
What is the primary determinant of drive life? I've read the latest research and talked to insiders.
Outlook's risky archives - and how to fix them
When you "archive" your Outlook email you probably suppose that your data is now safer than it was. After all, isn't "archiving" all about placing something important in a safe place?
Death of a disk
It even happens to storage bloggersThings are quiet today at Mojo manor. My external 160 GB disk died.