[sdw2003] Nth Generation: A STORAGE REVOLUTION!

[Tad Braun]

I don't know...apparently they don't die (well, at least for 42million
service hours the packs didn't die). That's an incredible service rate
compared to today's current technologies (that's where they get the 114X
more reliable stat). I would guess that since they have 10 drives in a
pack, at least 2 of those have to be spares (conjecture). Apparently,
they move data around the pack once errors do start cropping up, and
initiate auto-diag routines on the drives and
recondition/reformat/repartition on the fly. They are able to address
data at the platter level instead of as a single drive, so the
restriping doesn't take nearly as long. And all of this is done without
any user intervention.

The head storage honcho at Seagate thought this stuff up, and went with
the 100 or so engineers to Xiotech to create this new technology. They
are already prepared for solid-state drives (once they get big enough
capacity-wise). Then we'll see some insane speed increases as well (they
only promise about a 25% increase today). I'm hoping we get some new
life brought into the storage world...

-----Original Message-----
From: sdw2003-bounces at mattware.com [mailto:sdw2003-bounces at mattware.com]
On Behalf Of John Oliver
Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 1:18 PM
To: San Diego Windows 2003 User Group
Subject: Re: [sdw2003] Nth Generation: A STORAGE REVOLUTION!

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 11:54:50AM -0700, Tad Braun wrote:
> Apparently, it still is a bunch of hard disks, but packaged in a 
> sealed, vibration-reduced, heat-reduced package that "nearly" 
> eliminates having to ever replace a disk again.

So what do you do when a disk in this "sealed" enclosure does die?

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