
	Home > Storage FAQs > Disk Hardware FAQ > Frequently asked questions

FAQs:

Disk Hardware FAQ

EMAIL THIS

START

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

RELATED INFORMATION

Frequently asked questions

Check out Greg's answers to these disk hardware questions or download them as an MP3 file and take them with you on the go.



BROWSE SUBCATEGORIES:	Disk hardware FAQ podcast (1), Disk hardware introduction (2), Disk hardware technological considerations (6), Disk hardware best practices (4)


Disk hardware FAQ podcast: 1 - 1 of 1

Disk Hardware FAQ podcast - Expert Podcast

		DOWNLOAD PODCAST

PREMIERED:

09 MAY 2007, 12:00 EDT (16:00, GMT)

SPEAKER:

Greg Schulz - Founder and Senior Analyst, the Storage I/O Group

SUMMARY:

Don't have time to dig into the Disk Hardware FAQ text now? Download the podcast.


Disk hardware introduction: 1 - 2 of 2

What are the most important new disk drive technologies?
The first 1 terabyte hard disk drives have appeared. What will be the impact of hard disk drive technologies such as perpendicular recording, 2.5-inch high-performance drives, secure erase, encryption and hybrid...

Are SAS disks a good investment?
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.


Disk hardware technological considerations: 1 - 3 of 6

How are demands for drive power changing?
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.

How can I minimize disk vibration?
Any disk drive produces some level of vibration, and that vibration can then be carried to other drives through the physical drive trays or frames in an array.

What's the relationship between storage capacity, storage utilization and storage performance?
There's a lot of focus on storage capacity rather than storage performance. One of the marketing pitches behind storage virtualization is to increase storage utilization so that you don't need to buy so many drives.

	VIEW ALL IN THIS CATEGORY


Disk hardware best practices: 1 - 3 of 4

Why do enterprise storage arrays cost so much when hard drives are so cheap?
Why the cost of an enterprise storage array costs so much more than the hard drives inside it.

What advice do you have for long-term storage of disk drives and other media?
It's important to use the best practices recommended by your media manufacturer. For example...

What's the difference between flash memory and conventional RAM?
Even though vendors refer to flash memory and conventional RAM -- the "main memory" of your PC or server -- as solid-state memory, these two memory types are very different.

	VIEW ALL IN THIS CATEGORY

Search for Primary Storage Management with SearchStorage

View this month\\'s issue and subscribe today.

Apply online for free conference admission.

SEARCH :

Site Index

TechTarget provides technology professionals with the information they need to perform their jobs - from developing strategy, to making cost-effective purchase decisions and managing their organizations' technology projects - with its network of technology-specific websites, events and online magazines.


TechTarget Corporate Web Site \| Media Kits \| Site Map All Rights Reserved, Copyright 2000 - 2009, TechTarget \| Read our Privacy Policy