Tag Archives: disk
Short stroking disk drives to improve performance
Reading a post from Hans DeLeenheer (VEEAM) which ramped up quite a bit including responses from Calvin Zito (HP), Alex McDonald (NetApp) and Nigel Poulton. The discussion started on a...
Why partition alignment on disk matters (Linux)
Linux has been pretty good with and for storage. The sheer volume of options w.r.t. filesystems, volume-managers, access methods (FC, iSCSI, NFS, DAS etc), multi-pathing but also the...
One rotten apple spoils the bunch – 3
In the previous 2 blog-posts we looked at some areas why a fibre-channel fabric still might have problems even with all redundancy options available and MPIO checking for...
Help, my Thin Provisioning is not working
On many occasions I’ve seen posts from storage administrator who mapped some luns to hosts and on the first use the entire pool got whacked with all bells...
Why disk drives have become slower over the years
What is the first question vendors get (or at least used to get) when a customer (non-technical) calls???I’ll spare you the guesswork: “What does a TB of disks...
The end of spinning disks (part 2)
Maybe you found the previous article a bit hypothetical and is not substantiated by facts but merely some guestimations? To put some beef into the equation I’ll try...
The end of spinning disks
Did you ever wonder how long this industry will rely on spinning disk? I do and I think that within 5 to 10/15 years we’ve reached the end...