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.
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
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.
SOA done right: the Amazon strategy
I survived the Google Seattle scalability conferenceAnd Seattle's "summer" weather! The conference was titled "The Seattle Conference on Scalability".
Google's three rules
They roll out new applications for millions of users with surprising speed, especially compared to corporate IT. They build data centers with hundreds of thousands of servers - and millions of disk drives - and run it all on free software.
Blu-ray vs HD DVD: game over
Blu-ray wonThe sturm und drang over the Blu-ray vs HD DVD battle has come to naught. After a bit of jostling Blu-ray has taken an unassailable lead over HD DVD.