6 articles that week
StorageNewsletter.com, Thursday, August 8th, 2024
As of the end of 2Q24, Backblaze was monitoring 288,665 HDDs and SSDs in its cloud storage servers located in its data centers around the world. It removed from this analysis 3,789 boot drives, consisting of 2,923 SSDs and 866 HDDs.
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Search Storage, Wednesday, August 7th, 2024
Whatever the reason for failure, HDDs are hard to repair. Admins need to get out in front of potential issues, like the four described here, to prevent prolonged downtime.
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StorageNewsletter.com, Wednesday, August 7th, 2024
Key storage features include live migration, computational storage, and new host directed data placement technology.
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Cloud storage provider Backblaze is developing drive type profiling models to optimize its drive replacement and migration strategies.
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The Register, Tuesday, August 6th, 2024
Puts drive models into focus to assess how often they fall over in their lifetime
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Blocks & Files, Monday, August 5th, 2024
An IEEE report sees no mass takeover of the disk drive market by SSDs because HDD cost/bit is decreasing fast enough to prevent SSDs catching up.
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