Posts by Flammi

HPE blames solid state drive failure for outages at Australian Tax Office

Bad software!

True reliability comes not from reliable hardware, but from reliable software that makes up for unreliable hardware. Obviously 3PAR has big problems with their software. Maybe because it's almost two decades old... #legacysystem

NetApp facelift: FAS hardware refresh and a little nip ONTAP

Amen brother!

ExaFlash: Cheap, dense, energy-sipper will 'empower humankind'

Re: which comes first? sued again, or sales team fired? Buyer beware.

Amen brother!

EMC now spruiking PCs and thin clients, not Compellent

Re: What is a SAN

Really??? I guess the next thing you're going to suggest is to create a new OS from Linux and Windows.

DataCore drops SPC-1 bombshell

Yes, latest and greatest server hardware will most likely improve those results.

But I guess you didn't read D's previous post. He explained in detail what I also said.

The test is entirely in DRAM. There's no IO on backend disks or SSDs. So moving to NVMe won't change anything. The only thing they proved with this test is: Datacore had bloody fast DRAM. Wow... that's unique!

It's a useless test, that's as far from reality as it gets.

Re: Flammi...really?

Yes.. IN-MEMORY DATABASE is cool. But it runs in memory on the HOST. Not the storage controller.

Re: ByteMe, you're forgetting something Is SPC-1 still relevent with massive cache systems?

I disagree. Testing the RAM of any storage device is useless.

In the real word there is no storage system where DRAM is as big as the workingset.

DataCore dominating SPC-1 benchmark on price–performance

Re: The issues with this

Agreed. The whole thing is a joke.

Nimble whips out fat boxen: We're here for the all-flash array market

Re: IOPS / TB

Funny you mention IO/sec for Solidfire, where a single LUN can never get more than 20.000 IO/sec.

And your calculations are just plain wrong! Check the datasheet again.

Violin Memory offers starter kits to tempt flash storage virgins

Re: Kick the can down the road

Agreed. Dead man walking!

Re: How important is array level synchronous replication these days?

I'm certainly not saying that syncrep on array level makes a lot of sense, but in some countries (especially Germany and Austria) people demand it.

Violin simply uses FalconStore to do it. No secret sauce...

HDS brings out all-flash A series array

Re: Thin provisioning is not a "saving"

That's very funny. Tegile complaining about overmarketing. #companywithnoip

Could NetApp's purchase of SolidFire see the end of ONTAP?

Re: Perhaps the worst article ever.

I think this is the worst comment ever. Wake up dude. WAFL is not the future.

Pure CEO dons cheerleader outfit, harangues world, dog

Re: Hogwash

I agree 100%. They claim 8X - 10X and usually only get 3X - 4X.

Networked mutant flash-disk beast Nimble to smack flashy rivals with 'high-end' boxen

How about you just stay with Active/Standby. If one controller is down you still have 100% of your performance and don't have to worry about certain applications... because everything will run as usual.

Plus it makes software updates a lot easier than on Active/Active arrays!