Re: Hungry for storage news?
I suppose I can't interest you in one of these then...
Correct, you can't. I have a full set myself, but lovingly polishing my Snap On isn't something you're likely to catch me doing. Same goes for reading spanner fan fiction or looking at explicit centrefolds of the latest torque wrench sensation.
I have nothing against "storage" in particular, only the skewed emphasis. In the DC I'm working right now, 0.25% of cabinets (i.e. "2") are dedicated to storage. The rest is made up of the spinning rust and SSDs in the server and blade chassis which were acquired incidentally in the same way that your new car comes with a battery. No-one specified those disks beyond size, it was just whatever Dell, HP and IBM happened to be shipping that month (basically, "storage" doesn't even interest the guys building the DC very much).
Most DCs are not giant, online bit barns dedicated to storing and streaming terabytes of cat photos, pr0n and "Game of Thrones" as fast as possible; and if you do want that you're more likely to talk to AWS or Azure than start purchasing equipment yourself (e.g. NetFlix). Your more typical processing centric DC is no more interested in the minutiae of storage access time (meaning one SSD vs. another) than the exact BTU dump rate of the CRAC units - all that matters is sensible price, performance and MTBF.
Current coverage is like reading a car magazine with an editor who has a rubber fetish ("Feast your eyes on the new Michelin XYZ's with 14.2% more grip and 8% greater fluid expulsion capacity, modelled here by some new Ferrari supercar we're not very interested in." ... wrote no automotive journalist, ever).
Biting the hand that feeds IT
