The past few weeks have brought some interesting milestones in the world of open source storage. The first is the inclusion of DRBD (Distributed Replicated Block Device) in the linux kernel. DRBD has been a key component to many high avaiability solutions on Linux for the past few years and this merge will only help to widen its [...]
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Open Source Storage News
December 22nd, 2009 · No Comments · Software, Storage
Tags:DRBD·Linux·Nexenta·Open Solaris·Open Source·Software·Storage
Kingston Announces New Value Focused SSD for $85
October 26th, 2009 · No Comments · Hardware
Today Kingston added a new drive to it’s value driven SSDNow V series of MLC solid state disks. Some may remember that Kingson’s SSDNow M and SSDNow E series are really just Intel’s first generation X25-M and X25-E series drives in disguise. Until now Kingston’s SSDNow V series has been based on a somewhat problematic [...]
DRAM Error Rates in Commodity Servers
October 7th, 2009 · No Comments · Hardware, Storage
Robin Harris of StorageMojo, in his ZDNet persona, is taking time to highlight a study on memory error rates. The study looks at real world error rates on the majority of Google’s commodity server fleet over a period of 2.5 years. The study shows how important it is to use systems and memory that support [...]
Huge intrest in the Backblaze Storage Pod
September 27th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Hardware, Storage
On September 1 Backblaze, a provider of online backup services, posted an interesting article titled Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage. The post details how Backblaze uses commodity hardware to build 67 terabyte “storage pods” for just $7,867 each. Backblaze hopes that by sharing their design, others can benefit and contribute [...]
