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
RAM to avoid: hot, expensive and slow
Has Intel ever met a technology they couldn't make hotter, costlier and slower? The latest victim: DRAM.
Email value management
Email isn't email anymore - if it ever wasAs soon as you have more email than you can remember, email is so much more than email. It is a database of your friends, your business, your life.
Apple's Spotlight: keywords are so '90s
Is Vista any better?With massive storage comes massive, unstructured data: needle in a cybernetic haystack.
Do Microsoft and Google compete?
Given all the pixels spilled over Microsoft and Google, the answer is obvious. Except to me.
RAID 1+0 is the Cadillac of RAID
Is RAID 1+0 superiority a myth?My fellow ZDnet blogger, George Ou, makes some strong statements, bolstered by damning performance numbers, that it is.
Chunks: the hidden key to RAID performance
Why do people think RAID means performance?George Ou, Technical Director at ZDNet and a fellow ZDnet blogger, has a great post about real life RAID performance - hardware vs software - plus some helpful comments about data layout, especially for MS SQL Server.
How to REALLY erase a hard drive
You may already know that "deleting" a file does nothing of the sort. But did you know that your disk drive has a built-in system for the secure erasure of data?
Big impact lessons in email protection
As massive storage becomes common, its importance growsTwo recent stories highlight the importance of massive storage and the people who manage it.Intel vs AMDAMD is suing Intel for anti-trust violations, claiming that Intel illegally used its market power to choke off AMD sales.
SSD watch: Dell laptops; TweakTown 16 GB SSD review
SSDs are comin' onDigiTimes is reporting this morning that Dell is offering 1.8" 32 GB solid state disk drives as an alternative to standard hard drives on a couple of their small notebooks.