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Assessing And Comparing HP Parallel SCSI And HP Small Form Factor Enterprise Hard Disk Drives In Server Environments
White Papers This paper provides guidance and best case-scenarios for customers when deciding to implement hp capacity Parallel SCSI (P-SCSI) or hp small form factor enterprise hard drive technology in enterprise server environments.
[August 25, 2007, 0:00]
Hitachi Jumps Ahead Of IBM In Storage Race
News Hitachi and IBM are competing to offer larger drives, while applications like virtualisation and large Web servers are making increasing demands on the speed that data can be delivered from the disk, causing interfaces such as 320MB per second...
[November 8, 2001, 15:48]
White Paper On Hard Disk Technology In Palladium Store 1000
White Papers At the time, the hard disk drive technology of choice was typically SCSI based and, in later years, Fibre Channel drives. SCSI and Fibre Channel drives have led the way with the highest capacity, performance and reliability.
[August 25, 2007, 0:00]
Hard Disk Makers Collaborate For More Speed
News For years, there have been two competing standards for plugging disk drives into computers: the ATA technique used in PCs and the faster but more expensive SCSI method used in servers. Now SCSI is receiving the same makeover, a new consortium with...
[November 28, 2001, 9:10]
Maxtor And EqualLogic Ally For ISCSI
News Serial-attached SCSI, or SAS, is a relatively new technology for linking disk drives to computers. Adding momentum to a new disk-drive interface technology, Maxtor and storage-device maker EqualLogic said on Tuesday that they are teaming up to...
[September 24, 2003, 15:15]
IBM Plays Down Hard-drive Concerns
News On laptops, the standard duty is 40 percent, and on servers, which usually use higher-end SCSI (small computer system interface) drives, it is 100 percent. Higher-end servers usually use faster and more robust SCSI drives, whereas desktop machines...
[March 22, 2002, 15:14]
Monitor Hard Drive Health With SMARTDefender
News SMARTDefender runs under Windows and can monitor SMART-capable IDE and SCSI hard drives. ATA or SCSI), including JBOD configurations, and won't detect RAID drives. It's a standard for predicting the likelihood of impending failure for a hard disk.
[May 21, 2003, 13:37]
Notebooks Get Capacity Boost From Fujitsu
News The drive exploits the capacity advantage that serial ATA drives have over SCSI drives. However, SCSI drives typically perform more quickly than serial ATA drives and to get around this, Fujitsu has introduced a hardware accelerator.
[August 22, 2005, 17:00]
RAID 6 Principles: A Deep-Dive Tutorial
White Papers While a hard disk's expected useful life is largely independent of its host controller interface (SATA, FC-AL, SCSI, SAS, etc,), the present conventional perspective is that desktop hard drives have SATA interfaces and enterprise disks have FC-AL...
[January 11, 2008, 23:00]
Redesigning RAID For SATA Drives With Accelerated Drive Teaming (XDT)
White Papers ATA and newer SATA disk drives developed for the single-user, desktop market cost far less than their SCSI or Fibre Channel counterparts that were developed for multi-user, server applications. Considering that one of the goals of RAID was to use...
[August 30, 2007, 0:00]
Dual-Port SAS Drives Are A Boon To IT
White Papers The new serial interfaces, Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and Serial ATA (SATA), have been designed to replace their parallel predecessors. SAS goes beyond SATA by adding dual porting, full duplex, device addressing and it offers higher reliability...
[October 27, 2006, 0:00]
Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) Technology Transition
White Papers SAS technology encompasses a set of innovations that change the familiar parallel SCSI interconnect between a server and its storage devices. Both types of disk drives can be installed and controlled in the same SAS system.
[October 11, 2004, 0:00]
Enabling A Highly Scalable And Available Storage Environment Using Oracle Automatic Storage Management
White Papers This paper introduces the concept of ASM and presents techniques for implementing Oracle Database 10g databases on Dell/EMC Fibre Channel and Dell PowerVault SCSI storage arrays. As databases grow larger, requiring more disk drives and cluster...
[August 6, 2004, 0:00]
Active NTFS Reader For DOS
Downloads These important features allow you to: save and run from bootable floppy; display complete physical and logical drive information; support IDE / ATA / SCSI drives; support large (more than 8GB) hard drives.
[September 12, 2003, 20:31]
Drive Doldrums Cost Jobs
News Singapore, however, continues to be the command and control centre of our hard-drive manufacturing and we will continue to manufacture our multi-platter desktop and SCSI drives here," a Maxtor spokesperson told ZDNet UK sister site CNETAsia.
[July 5, 2004, 11:05]
RLX Goes For Dell-spoiler With 6G Blades
News The company also launched two 1U high rack-mounted servers; the entry-level RM1100 with single processor, up to 4GB of memory and two SATA disk drives; and the RM1400 which comes with dual Xeon EM64T processors, up to four SCSI disk drives and 8GB...
[November 15, 2004, 14:05]
Plasmon Jukeboxes Support CD-ROM, CD-R, PD Disks
News The library robotics are controlled using SCSI, which Plasmon claims is a first for a unit of this size. The D-Series libraries support CD-ROM, CD-Recordable and PD (CD-ROM, magneto-optical hybrid) disks in a choice of 120-, 240- and 480-disk models.
[February 24, 1997, 14:35]
Mitsubishi Slams Compaq Sub-£1K Server
News The FT1200 is a 200MHz Pentium Pro-based mini-tower system with 32Mb error-correcting DIMM RAM, integral UltraWide SCSI, support for up to four internal drives, PCI Ethernet, PCI graphics and eight-speed CD-ROM drive.
[January 14, 1997, 11:09]
Philips 2 X 6 CD-R Burns Like A Floppy Drive
News Called the CDD2600 (£619 + VAT list), the SCSI-hosted device is Plug and Play recognised by Windows 95 and Windows NT and can write in the CD-UDF format for fast operation. Likened by Philips to saving to floppy disk, UDF (Universal Disk Format...
[December 5, 1996, 14:42]
Quantum Ships First Ultra ATA Hard Drives
News The new line ranges from a 1.6Gb model (£140 + VAT) to a 6.4Gb Ultra ATA model (£300 + VAT) and Ultra SCSI model (£380 + VAT). The third new drive family is the 3.5-inch Quantum Pioneer SG drive which is available in one-disk 1Gb (£115 + VAT) and...
[October 25, 1996, 10:02]
