http://blog.hydrasystemsllc.com The blog of Petros Koutoupis. Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:43:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Back in December I just came across this article for an AMD RoC (RAID-on-Chip) that will be embedded into servers to provide uninterrupted RAID functionality. A quick question came to mind as I was reading this: "Considering today's storage capabilities and low cost equipment, who will be using this?" And ... http://blog.hydrasystemsllc.com/2010/03/05/amd-raid-on-chip-a-valid-technology-or-is-it-just-too-late-in-the-game/ It is hard to believe that Microsoft's Internet Explorer still has the majority of market share in the web browser world (62.12%). I am just glad to see the rising popularity of Mozilla Firefox (24.43%), Google Chrome (5.22%) to even others such as Apple Safari (4.53%), Opera (2.38%), etc. Whenever ... http://blog.hydrasystemsllc.com/2010/02/28/my-frustration-with-internet-explorer/ I was just having a conversation with a colleague when we had gotten to the topic of the disposable PC.  If you are not familiar with the concept, this post will highlight the details below. When I first dabbled with computers back in the late 80's, it was an Apple. ... http://blog.hydrasystemsllc.com/2010/02/16/the-disposable-pc/ Well, it has been 23 days or so since my last update. Things have been a bit hectic. For instance, I am spending all of my free time in a start-up company intended to cater to the data storage industry. My business partner and I have a few commitments with ... http://blog.hydrasystemsllc.com/2009/12/19/updates/ Earlier today I came across this interesting article on tuning your SSD drive to achieve greater performance. It is worth noting that this article is intended for Linux and when it mentions setting your file systems mount options with noatime, this too is relevant for file systems that support such ... http://blog.hydrasystemsllc.com/2009/11/26/linux-magazine-article-three-simple-tweaks-for-better-ssd-performance/ I just stumbled onto this blog entry on the implementation of data deduplication into the Sun Microsystem's ZFS file system. It is implemented in such a nice and clean way, I am looking forward to testing it. For instance, just like any other feature of the ZFS file system, data ... http://blog.hydrasystemsllc.com/2009/11/03/recently-integrated-into-zfs-data-deduplication/ On 23 October, 2009 it was announced on MacOSForge that Apple had decided to discontinue any and all development on the porting of the ZFS file system. I know that I am not the only one to say this but I am not surprised. Supposedly there were legal reasons behind this ... http://blog.hydrasystemsllc.com/2009/10/27/apple-discontinues-port-of-suns-zfs-file-system/ Linked off of www.linuxleak.com, today I found this interesting article on "Linux Tuning The VM (memory) Subsystem." The author also offers some suggestions for a more efficient computing environment. http://blog.hydrasystemsllc.com/2009/10/16/nixcraft-article-linux-tuning-the-vm-memory-subsystem/ According to the H Open Source website, Sun just recently announced the availability of Solaris 10 Update 10/9. "The latest release includes a number of bug fixes, feature updates and expanded support for new processors.In addition to several efficiency and performance improvements, Solaris 10 10/09 includes new updates for Solaris ZFS which ... http://blog.hydrasystemsllc.com/2009/10/12/the-h-open-source-article-sun-releases-solaris-10-1009/ Linked from linuxtoday.com, I found an interesting article posted on FlexTk regarding NAS Performance Comparisons between Linux, Windows and OpenSolaris. The results are very interesting. Under each category, comparisons are drawn between: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 (64-bit) Ubuntu Server 9.04 (64-bit) OpenSolaris 2009.06 (64-bit) Windows Server 2003 (64-bit) Windows Server 2008 (64-bit) Windows Storage Server 2008 (64-bit) I ... http://blog.hydrasystemsllc.com/2009/10/08/flextk-article-nas-performance-comparison/