 - A gigabyte (GB) is a measure of computer data storage capacity and is "roughly" a billion bytes. A gigabyte is two to the 30th power, or 1,073,741,824 in decimal notation. The term is pronounced with two hard Gs. The prefix, "giga" comes from a Greek word meaning "giant."
Also see gigabit, megabyte, terabyte, and exabyte.
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| No-maintenance disk array aims to eliminate hard drive swapping: SAID (Sealed Array of Identical Disks) array from startup Atrato bridges the performance-capacity gap. It can in theory run for the term of a 5-year lease with zero maintenance. |
| Fail-in-place systems: Avoiding hard disk drive failures: Fail-in-place storage systems, such Atrato's V1000 and Xiotech's Emprise 5000 or ISE, can virtually eliminate hard disk drive replacement service calls. |
| Multiprotocol storage arrays gain interest, adoption: Multiprotocol storage arrays, or unified storage, combine block and file storage access protocols. Interest due to cost savings, advances in technology and simpler management. |
| Enterprise disk array consolidation product specifications: Knowing the purchasing criteria for enterprise-class disk arrays, as well as product specs for the leading arrays, can help storage managers make savvy buying decisions. |
| What is a terabyte? What is bigger than a terabyte?: What is a terabyte? What are terabytes? What are terabyte drives? What comes after a terabyte? What's bigger than a terabyte? Please don't just say that 2 terabytes is bigger than one terabyte. |
| Storwize claims good data compression rates, no performance degradation on STN-6000 appliance: Storwize's STN-6000 inline appliance acts on primary storage using real-time compression. |
| NetApp: Post-process deduplication limits performance hit in primary storage data deduplication: NetApp's approach to primary storage data deduplication limits the performance penalty to about 20% percent. |
| Best practices for solid-state drive storage technology: SSD best practices center on identifying I/O-intensive applications so that data storage technology can provide the greatest benefit to IT organizations. |
| Storage arrays quiz: Take our quiz and become a scholar on storage arrays, including array-based memory, RAID, and storage consolidation. |
| Podcast: Solid-state drives entering enterprise storage environments: Jeff Janukowicz, research manager at IDC for solid-state drives and hard drive components, discusses the impact SSDs are expected to have at the enterprise level. |
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