Nowadays, storage is getting more and more important for everyone, as most of them need to store large amounts of data in the database, and network storage systems are becoming much easier to get than before. However, under the overall architecture, storage is a bit complex. The entire architecture sequentially goes from the data sent to the storage side,…

Why Does Low Latency Affect Your Business? Businesses are hungry for data. The exponential growth in demand for data and new applications may put SSDs (Solid State Drives) in trouble. When faced with the new challenges brought about by the upcoming huge data, even high-performance SSDs connected to traditional storage protocols may encounter problems such as performance degradation, increased…

ZFS may be the best-known enterprise-grade transactional file system to use storage pools to manage physical storage space. It is not the only one on the market, however. ZFS competes with ext4 for market share in the data management system world.  While both ZFS and ext4 can retain massive amounts of data in a secure, non-cloud storage pool system, the two…

Introducing ZFS: Your Enterprise-Grade File System  Many people have heard of ZFS, but are unsure what it actually is. So, what is ZFS? The Zeta File System (ZOL on Linux) is an enterprise-grade transactional file system that uses the concept of storage pools to manage physical storage space. Sun Microsystems began work on the product in 2001 and released it in…

Introduction to Cache Technology Data protection is an important requirement for any storage system. To achieve this, RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) is a commonly used technology to protect the data stored on the storage system. In addition to RAID, another requirement for the storage systems is high performance. The storage system must be able to access the data as soon as possible. The processors can run thousands of times faster than the disk drives, so the storage system uses…

IT Faces the Problems of Retired Drives When disk drives are retired and moved outside from the data center into someone else’s hands, the data on those drives is put at significant risk. IT administrators routinely retire drives for a variety of reasons, including: Returning drives for warranty, repair, maintenance, or expired lease agreements Removal and disposal of disk…