Is it time to buy that SSD?
Perhaps you noticed that SSD sale prices are dropping to $1/GB and even less. Is now the time to buy?
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
Mac OS Lion demands an SSD
Adding iOS UI elements of OS X means lots more small I/Os, the kind that disks do poorly and SSDs do well. Don't buy a new Mac without an SSD or you'll regret it!
Can phones and tablets do "real work?"
Some readers were skeptical that "real work" could be done on a tablet. Get over yourselves! People did "real work" even before computers were invented.
Streaming beats Blu-ray
5 years ago put all my CDs into a box and threw out hundreds of CD cases. My 1200 DVD collection is next. Why? Streaming.
Will iPhones replace desktops?
If you believe Moore's Law still has legs - and I do - it will only be a matter of time before an iPhone-sized package can deliver more computing than most people need. So it's bound to happen, right? Nope.
When will the iPad replace desktops?
While an iPad can't replace a desktop system today, it will be able to - for the vast majority of users - in 5 years. Not only possible, but inevitable. Here's how.
How to hide files from the law
You encrypt your data to protect it from spying eyes, including the government's. Can you be forced to decrypt it and thus incriminate yourself? A US appeals court says NO. This may drive the full-disk-encryption market.
Data corruption at massive scale
Data corruption is a fact of life for all systems - but only large systems get a statistically significant sample. Amazon, home of the world's largest cloud storage system, sees it all and concludes: trust nothing!
The dismal science of flash
Economics isn't the only dismal science: the future of flash is even more dire than anything Malthus forecast. A paper presented at this week's FAST '12 conference, quantifies flash's declining reliability, endurance, and performance as density increases.
Lazy emailers win: you're most efficient!
Carefully organized email boxes, with dozens of folders named and tagged, are a waste of time. Here's why, according to researchers from IBM and Microsoft.