Storage Management Strategies for the CIO
Storage Disk drives:
Disk drives
This is the first segment of our Guide to Disk Storage. Here, we explore the various disk drives available. When the next chapter launches, we'll look at RAID. The final chapter takes a deeper look at disk arrays.
Disk drives overview:
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08 Jun 2006
Article - Hard disks provide huge storage capacities that can reach to 300GB and higher (though enterprise disks offer somewhat less -- up to 150 GB per disk). Enterprise hard disks offer fast data transfers, and drives like the Seagate Cheetah family can achieve...
Fibre Channel drives:
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SATA, Fibre Channel and ATA disks on the same array?
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What are SAS, SATA, Fibre Channel and FATA disk drives? When will there be an iSCSI disk drive?
FAQ - Well, with the right marketing and packaging, we could say there's already an iSCSI disk drive today...
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How does IP storage differ from iSCSI, NAS and Fibre Channel?
FAQ - Generically, IP storage involves any storage functionality that is leveraging TCP/IP as a network transport...
Other disk drives:
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Ask the Expert - Storage expert Greg Schulz offers advice to a reader who asked a question regarding FC and SCSI drive resiliency.
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FC vs. iSCSI: Five tips in five minutes
Tip - Recently, there has been a buzz among storage pros about how FC and iSCSI stack up. Check out this expert advice, so you can decide what is right for your organization.
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How are demands for drive power changing?
FAQ - Each new generation of drives offers better capacity and performance but is generally using less power -- at spin-up as well as during normal operation.
SAS drives:
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04 Oct 2005
Article - SAS announcements are coming quickly, as vendors race to lay claim to being first to market with servers and arrays based on the successor to parallel SCSI disk drive technology.
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Are SAS disks a good investment?
FAQ - In the near term, SAS won't make much of a dent in the high-end Fibre Channel drive market, but SAS may displace Fibre Channel deployments in the mid- and entry-market price bands.
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Smaller, speedier SAS array steps out
22 Jun 2005
Article - Fujitsu's SAS array, which offers users faster data transmission speeds in a smaller footprint, hits the shelves.
SATA drives:
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Tip - Learn more about SATA II, its features and how to leverage its capabilities for your storage environment.
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Think 'big picture' for SATA Exchange storage
Tip - Storage management expert Brett Cooper outlines things to consider before deploying SATA for Exchange data storage.
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SATA port: Can you run multiple drives off of one?
Ask the Expert - Storage networking expert Greg Schulz discusses how to run multiple drives off a SATA port.