That’s the interesting question posed recently by a blogger. If you want to transfer a few hundred gigabytes of data, it’s generally faster to FedEx a hard drive than to send the files over the internet. This isn’t a new idea—it’s often dubbed SneakerNet—and it’s how Google transfers large amounts of data internally. Cisco estimates…
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Are desktop class hard drive failures vs enterprise class hard drive failures as expected with the desktop drives being higher? Based on our own subjective and objective experience in the drive industry, we have long suspected that desktop hard drives and enterprise drives fail at roughly the same rate. This goes against the conventional wisdom…
Perhaps one of the more confusing terms in networking is iSCSI (pronounced eye-SKUZ-ee). The acronym iSCSI is for Internet Small Computer System Interface. Most people think of SCSI as a type of hard drive, or a physical interface for a particular type of hard drive. This leads to confusion because iSCSI isn’t a physical interface. iSCSI…
Replication Information for NetSwap Plus Executive Summary Highly Reliable Systems (HRS), has added bi-directional incremental replication over the Internet to their NetSwap Plus removable drive Network Attached Storage (NAS) backup appliances. The feature will also be available in certain network connected RAIDFrame models. A Netswap Basic edition is available without replication. A key differentiator of…
In a continuing trend for cloud based companies, Reputation.com has said: the cloud hacked again. They let users know via email on April 30th, 2013 that it’s data had been breached. The company does not believe credit card data was taken, but the breach is particularly embarrassing because the company helps users manage their online…