Disk drives

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	Disks and disk subsystems Products of the Year winners SearchStorage.com | 16 Feb 2010 2009 PRODUCTS OF THE YEAR - The disks and disk subsystems category in SearchStorage.com's Products of the Year awards includes technologies such as SANs, NAS, DAS primary drives and disk controllers.

	Disks and disk subsystems finalists: 2009 Products of the Year SearchStorage.com | 14 Jan 2010 2009 PRODUCTS OF THE YEAR - Find out the nine finalists in the disks and disk subsystems category in the 2009 Storage magazine and SearchStorage.com Products of the Year competition.

	Primary storage data reduction: Data deduplication and compression tools Carol Sliwa, Features Writer | 15 Dec 2009 SPECIAL REPORT - Learn about the primary storage data reduction marketplace, including tools that handle data deduplication and compression for primary storage data reduction.

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EXPERT TECHNICAL ADVICE: 1 - 3 of 78

	Solid-state drives vs. hard disk drives: How to justify the cost of an SSD 10 Mar 2010 TIP - Learn about the best use cases for solid-state drives and why applications that directly impact revenue are a perfect fit for the technology.

	Use MAID, intelligent power management as green storage options to control energy consumption 10 Feb 2010 TIP - MAID and intelligent power management align data storage performance and energy consumption levels. Learn what you should look for in a product with MAID or IPM-enabled features.

	How to add solid-state storage to your enterprise data storage systems 02 Dec 2009 TIP - Complement your enterprise storage systems by adding solid-state drives (SSDs) instead of disk drives, and using NAND flash and standalone SSD arrays.

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REFERENCE & LEARNING: 1 - 3 of 28

	Storwize claims good data compression rates, no performance degradation on STN-6000 appliance Carol Sliwa, Features Writer | 15 Dec 2009 SPECIAL REPORT - 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 Carol Sliwa, Features Writer | 15 Dec 2009 SPECIAL REPORT - NetApp's approach to primary storage data deduplication limits the performance penalty to about 20% percent.

	Best practices for solid-state drive storage technology Carol Sliwa, Features Writer | 21 Jul 2009 SPECIAL REPORT - SSD best practices center on identifying I/O-intensive applications so that data storage technology can provide the greatest benefit to IT organizations.

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WHITE PAPERS

	Benchmarking Enterprise SSDs Published by: STEC Inc | 01 Mar 2010 WHITE PAPER - This paper will demonstrate differ­ences in comparative SSD products. The analysis reconciles instanta­neous benchmark data to actual user performance, over time in a work­ing system under a true enterprise workload.

	Unprotected Laptops: The Million Dollar Gamble: How Much Can Your Company Afford to Lose? Published by: Dell, Inc. and Intel | 27 Jan 2009 WHITE PAPER - Read this white paper to learn more about laptop security and how asset and data protection solutions from Dell can help save your company millions of dollars.

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WEBCASTS: 1 - 2 of 2

Seven Key Questions to Ask Before Moving to Disk-Based Backup - Vendor Podcast VIEW WEBCAST PREMIERED:   25 OCT 2006, 09:00 EDT (13:00, GMT) SUMMARY:   You have a lot of options when it comes to disk based backups and choosing the right disk-based backup solution can be daunting. Attend this Podcast to understand the critical questions you need to ask when considering a move to disk-based backup – and examine the pros and cons of the popular approaches other IT professionals are currently choosing.

Top 7 Question You Must Ask When Moving to Disk-Based Backup - Vendor Webcast VIEW WEBCAST PREMIERED:   26 OCT 2006, 09:00 EDT (13:00, GMT) SUMMARY:   Backing up to disk instead of tape eliminates the hassles of tape, provides faster backups and restores, improves security and streamlines operations. Learn about the 7 critical questions to ask when considering a move to disk-based backup and examine the pros and cons of popular approaches.

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	Gartner analyst on data deduplication for primary storage Published by: Carol Sliwa, Features Writer | 15 Dec 2009 PODCAST - Gartner's Filks predicts that primary storage data dedupe will take hold first with NAS and then block-based options, and advises users to architect with new offerings in mind.

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DEFINITIONS: 1 - 3 of 29

	Fibre Channel 15 May 2003 WORD - Fibre Channel is a technology for transmitting data between computer devices at data rates of up to 4 Gbps (and 10 Gbps in the near future). Fibre Channel is especially suited for connecting computer servers to shared ...

	holographic disk drive 24 Apr 2008 WORD - A holographic disk drive is a holographic storage device that uses a laser to store data to optical media in three dimensions, maximizing storage capacity by using the media's depth. Most optical media, such as CD, DVD, ...

	solid-state drive 15 Feb 2008 WORD - An SSD (solid-state drive or solid-state disk) is a storage device that stores persistent data on solid-state flash memory. SSDs actually aren't hard drives at all, in the traditional sense of the term, as there are no ...

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MAGAZINE CONTENT (free subscription required): 1 - 3 of 126

	Beginning of the end for hard drives? Storage Magazine | 01 Mar 2010 TOOLS, TRENDS & ANALYSIS - Enterprise-ready solid-state storage hasn't been around for long, but 33% of our respondents have solid state running. Price is still an issue, but disk's days may be numbered.

	SAS drives showing up more and more Storage Magazine | 01 Feb 2010 TOOLS, TRENDS & ANALYSIS - Our monthly survey shows that more than 50% of respondents use SAS drives. With 6 Gbps SAS now available, SAS is poised to make an impact on various storage implementations.

	SAS challenges Fibre Channel drives Storage Magazine | 01 Jan 2010 FEATURES - At 6 Gbps, SAS-2 poses a serious threat to FC interface drives and could change the landscape of high-end storage arrays.

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	SEE ALSO - Topics Related to Disk drives:  RAID, Solid-State Storage, Disk arrays