The year 1956 marked the beginning of an era that would dynamically and dramatically alter the landscape of technology forever. It was in San Jose, Calif., where the first hard disk drive (HDD), ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The year 1956 marked the beginning of an era that would dynamically and dramatically alter the ...

Storage benchmarking—much like Wi-Fi benchmarking—is a widely misunderstood black art. Admins and enthusiasts have for decades been tempted to just “get the big number” by reading or writing a large ...

When anyone hears the word “fragmentation,” they typically think of a physical disk platter problem where the fragmentation of physical blocks results in disk latency due to the extra head movement ...

Sun Microsystems releases a video about a source of disk latency that is at once funny and a nice demonstration of the underlying technologies, including DTrace. Gordon Haff is Red Hat's cloud ...

Moving the head takes a lot longer than waiting for the sector to come around. So low seek times (the time to move the head) are critical to good disk performance. Access time (time to find a sector) ...

While data-center managers have long used heat maps to help determine where to best position racks of servers and cooling units, this mode of visualization can also be handy for better understanding ...

It isn't everyday that someone posts up a YouTube video demonstrating the effects of human vocal vibrations on disk drives. Nevertheless, an engineer from the Sun Microsystems Fishworks lab proceeded ...

Traditional guest-based antivirus can sap the life out of your virtualization and storage infrastructure -- learn how to recognize the problem Life in IT is full of onerous tasks. Along with making ...