IBM today announced its latest all-flash array, the V840 virtualized storage system with 1.6 Petabyte compressed storage capacity (320 TB total usable un-compressed flash capacity) in a single 6U ...

There are almost too many ways to skin the storage cat in the enterprise datacenter these days. HPC centers have it easy. They pick a single parallel file system and now maybe put a burst buffer in ...

Due to the unique characteristics of flash, performance validation testing is immensely challenging and critically important; follow these best practices All-flash storage arrays (AFAs) are receiving ...

Modern storage arrays offer disk types to meet any need--costly Fibre Channel (FC) disks for high-end applications requiring superior performance and availability, and lower-priced SATA disks for less ...

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New high-end arrays include full disk encryption and solid-state disks, and offer up to 2.5 times the performance and 50 percent more energy efficiency For the first time in three years, IBM has ...

I'm putting together a storage array. I've got 3x250GB SATA disks, and can get my hands on a 4th one. I need to put in adapter card(s) to connect the drives since the mobo in question does not have ...

The very first disk drive in the world was a vertical rotating drum coated with magnetic material called the IBM 305 RAMAC, which still used vacuum tubes as its compute elements and weighed about a ...