• EMC using Samsung SSDs?

Recently I read EMC snuggles Samsung NAND into flash drives • The Register

Apparently EMC is now OEMing Samsung SSD drives. Samsung drives have pretty reliably been nothing to write home about performance wise, and the size is rather less than the drives EMC OEMs from stec (200/400 right now, while the rest of the industry only gets the 200). The interface is also interesting, although EMC can just slap a paddle card on the drive to fit into any of their...

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Recently one of the performance folks at the site I work out came to me with a question. He was putting together some numbers for disk performance and had come up with an interesting issue.

The intergalactic standard formula for average disk access is:

Average seek time + Rotational Delay + Transfer Rate of Data + Controller Overhead

Looking at EMC’s specification sheet for the new V-Max, we get the following values for

450GB Fiber Channel...

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Recently, I purchased a very expensive mac book for my wife. This greatly increased the complexity of keeping data backed up, as previously I had just backed up my computer to a USB Hard drive.

I had a few complex data sets to protect on my home computers:
1. Pictures and Video. Every picture of both of my kids and every video is kept on my hard drive.
2. I can't remember the last time I did a tax return that wasn't on the computer. The printouts of all of it? Sitting...

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The heavyweight management tool in the industry is EMC’s Control Center. This software package allows you to monitor, manage, and configure all aspects of your SAN and associated storage nodes. With a large amount of support for many vendors not EMC, this product can be your one stop shop for your needs.

Then why do many EMC engineers not use it when provisioning storage?

1. They’re not used to it. When you’ve done everything command line you already have...

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