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Megabyte's
ancestor, Sir Squeaks-a-Bit
had come over to England in 1066 with
William
the Conquerer's ship in a barrel
of Normandy cheese. | |
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Classic Storage Articles -
from Storage
History
Sometimes we've published articles here on
StorageSearch.com which set the tone for massive changes in the storage market.
And the best of these articles still remain popular many years later.
Here are some examples.
SAN Applications -
published in 1999 was the first to integrate ideas about the new possibilities
of "storage area networks".
A Storage Architecture Guide
- published in 2000 - paved the way for new thinking about NAS.
SSD Market
Adoption Model - 1st published in 2003 - described how SSDs would
become a 10 billion dollar / year market.
SATA Raids the
Datacenter - published in 2004 proposed that market segregation of hard
drives into "enterprise" and "consumer" HDDs by interface
type was a mythical barrier that would soon break down. | |
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| Can You Trust Your Flash
SSD's Specs? |
Editor:- Something I've noticed
is that the published specs of
flash SSDs change
a lot -from the time they are first announced, then when they're being
sampled, and later again when they are in volume production.
Sometimes
the headline numbers get better, sometimes they get worse. There are many good
reasons for this.
The product which you carefully qualified may
not be identical to the one that's going into your production line for a
variety of reasons... ...read the article | |
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| Are MLC SSDs Ever
Safe in Enterprise Apps? |
This is a follow up
article (published in March 2008) to the popular
SSD Myths and
Legends which, a year earlier demolished the myth that flash memory
wear-out (a comfort blanket beloved by many
RAM SSD makers)
precluded the use of flash in heavy duty datacenters.
This new
article looks at the risks posed by MLC Nand Flash SSDs which have recently
hatched from their breeeding ground as chip modules in cellphones and morphed
into
hard disk form
factors. |
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It starts down a familiar
lane but an unexpected technology twist (which arrived in my email while
writing this article) takes you to a startling new world of possibilities.
...read the
article | | |
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Squeak!
- Animal Brands and Metaphors in the Storage Market
Animal
marketing metaphors are popular in service industries, but you'd be surprised
how many companies have used animals in their marketing of data storage
products and services. The storage market was worth over $150 billion in 2005,
and as it gets bigger - more companies will turn to animal brands to help
differentiate their otherwise bland products and lend them artificial (or
deserving) characters and virtues.
The idea behind this type of
marketing is to suggest positive connotations so it's unlikely that anyone will
choose to associate their products with gremlins. But you may be surprised by
the population of the storage ark.
This reference articles lists all
known companies who have furry marketing brands, and also includes some
which are slimy, scaly and scary too. ...read the article,
Mice in storage |
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| SPARC History |
Spellabyte and
Terrorbyte loved sitting around
the campfire, discussing the good old days
of
SPARC computing. | |
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Megabyte's
Ancestor - Sir Squeaks-a-Bit - the Unexpurgated History
Megabyte
had traced the Byte family tree ancestry back to the late dark ages knight Sir
Squeaks-a-Bit. An ancient scroll found in the cellars of the old book shop in
Petersfield relates the
story of how King Arthur won his first great battle against the Vikings.
In most of the early skirmishes, when it started to rain, the English scouts
used to go back into their tents and brew up a cup of tea. By the time the rain
had stopped, the Vikings, who had come in their longboats and were used to
being wet, had usually surrounded the tents, cut the cords and captured
everyone.
On one occasion, Squeaks-a-Bit, who didn't like tea, stayed outside
Arthur's tent and fought off a dreadful force of kidnappers single handed until
the weather cleared up, and the knights of the round table came out to see what
all the fuss was about. For saving the king, he was dubbed a knight, but
despite all his best efforts, the rain had got into his armor which squeaked a
bit ever after. That was in the days before WD40.
Sometime
during the reign of king Henry the 8th, the family name changed from "Bit"
to "Byte" as a result of a typo on a birth certificate, and in the
18th century, the wizard Spellabyte, started his public school in Portsmouth
to educate the second sons of goblins and pirates. But that's
another story... | |
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The
Perils of Working with Early Hard Drives
Editor:- December 18,
2006 - there have been many stories published this year related to the 50th
anniversary of the hard
disk drive.
But yesterday I heard a story with a different spin - about the
dangers posed by early mass storage devices. It came from my brother in law
Peter Downes.
"In 1964 I was a programmer /
operator at Pilkington Glass
in St Helens. At that time Pilkington had one of the largest commercial
computer installations in the UK. It included
ICT
computers, countless card punches and readers,
Ampex tape drives, and, I think,
CDC disk
drives.
"One night in the main computer room I witnessed the
internal cylinder of a hard drive break out of its cabinet. It was several
feet in diameter and spinning at high speed. It bounced when it hit the
floor, then as if deciding which way to go, it hovered and raced through the
glass partition, and sped along until it hit the solid wall of the building at
which point it exploded. The computer room was sprayed with glass, but luckily
it was safety glass and I wasn't hurt. I couldn't help thinking that if it
had come for me it would have killed me. One thing I'm not sure about is why it
bounced when it first hit the floor and only exploded when it hit the concrete
wall. There was a lot of energy in the cylinder - and it had a horizontal
spindle." | |
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Editor's
Note to Storage Historians
ACSL, publisher of
StorageSearch.com, has been a
primary source of market data since 1992. All the contents are subject to our
copyright. Please cite our publication if you extract small segments of text or
use this site in your research.
Finding stuff:-
Google's
site search is a useful tool for datamining these archives.
Linked
urls:- Vendors often restructure their web sites which means that external
links which were correct at the original time of publication - may not be
visible now. A useful tool for examining the full text of linked stories,
articles and web sites is The Internet
Archive beacuse we have allowed their crawler to record the links on our
site since it was created.
My own email inbox contains copies of press
releases, articles and reader / contributor dialogs related to much more
content than ever got published here. I sometimes find it useful for resolving
obscure relationships in emerging stories. | | |
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This historical archive of the storage market is the
gateway to all the daily
storage news published
on
StorageSearch.com from January 2000
to the present day
(thousands of stories). It also includes a market timeline from 1949 to 1999.
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2010
January
2010, week 1 - ioSafe Launches Disaster Proof Backup SSD
January 2010, week 2 -
new article discusses Year of the SSD Market Bubble
2009
SSD
Market History - 2009
December 2009, week 1 -
Micron Samples SATA 3.0 SSDs
December
2009, week 2 - Seagate unveils its 1st real SSD
December 2009, weeks 3-4
- InnoDisk Enters PCIe SSD Market
November 2009, week 1 -
VAIOs get SanDisk SSDs
November 2009, week 2 -
NextIO Launches very fast PCIe rackmount SSD
November 2009, week 3 -
Google's New SSD Based OS
November
2009, week 4 - OCZ to show USB 3.0 SSD at CES
October
2009, week 1 - Active Media Products launches 1st USB 3 SSDs
October 2009, week 2 -
Storspeed Unveils NAS SSD Appliance
October
2009, week 3 - Samsung invests in Fusion-io
October 2009, week 4 -
Foremay Enters PCIe SSD Market
September 2009, week 1
- PCIe SSD Searches 6x Higher
September 2009, week 2
- Pliant samples fast 2.5" 3.5" SAS SSDs
September 2009,
week 3 - Foremay launches Military SSDs
September 2009, week 4
- Dataram eliminates waits for the SSD Hot-Spot Engineer
August 2009, week 1 -
Texas Memory Systems Shows 100TB SSD
August 2009, week 2 -
STEC Samples 6Gb/s SAS SSDs
August 2009,
week 4 - Dataram Promises SSD Accelerator Soon
July
2009, week 1 - Foremay's Cheetah Joins Fastest 2.5" SSD List
July 2009, week 2 -
IronKey launches secure USB memory stick
July 2009, week 3 -
Flash Price Slope will Flatten says Denali
July 2009, week 4 - WD
Remains Profitable Despite Softening Hard Disk Market
the Top 10 SSD OEMs - in
Q2 2009
June
2009, week 1 - Fusion-io promises $895 520MB/s SSD
June 2009, week 2 -
PhotoFast Launches Fastest ExpressCard SSD
June 2009, week 3 -
Crocus Ports MRAM to Tower Fab
June
2009, week 4 - Phase Change Memory gets 2nd Source
May
2009, week 1 - DDRdrive Launches Low Cost PCIe RAM SSD
May 2009, week 2 -
Toshiba Ships 512GB Notebook SSD
May 2009, week 3 -
Unity Semiconductor Unveils Flash's Successor
May 2009, week 4 -
Rambus Unveils Faster RAM Technologies
April 2009, week 1 -
Fusion-io Secures $47 million Series B Funding
April 2009, week 2 -
SandForce Unveils New flash SSD Controller
April 2009, week 3 -
Sun's Future Proclaimed by Oracle
April 2009, week 4 - GE
Talks About 500GB Optical Storage
the Top 10 SSD OEMs - in
Q1 2009
March
2009, week 1 - Pretec Samples Highest Capacity ExpressCard SSD
March 2009,
week 2 - Viking Launches SATA Cube SSD
March 2009, week 3 -
Dolphin Launches PCIe Rackmount SSD
March
2009, week 4 - WD Enters the SSD Market
2009, February week 1 -
SalvationDATA Unveils Data Recovery for flash SSDs
2009, February week 2 -
SanDisk Announces Imminent X4 Flash
2009, February week 3 -
Viking Launches SSD Backup Module for RAID Cache
2009,
February week 4 - Hitachi GST Buys Desktop SSD Company
2009, January week 1 -
EMC Aims to Cut 2,400 Positions
2009, January week 2 -
pureSilicon Unveils Terabyte 2.5" SSD
2009,
January week 3 - Thousands of USB Sticks Left at Dry Cleaners
2009, January week 4 -
World's first 2 Terabyte Hard Drive
2008
SSD
Market History - 2008
the Top 10 SSD OEMs - in
Q4 2008
2008,
December week 1 - Santa speeds Naughty / Nice lists with SSDs
2008, December week
2 - Addonics Brings NASes to the Masses
2008, December weeks
3 to 4 - New Methodology Predicts Flash SSD Reliability
2008,
November week 1 - Curtiss-Wright Ships Faster XMC / PMC SSDs
2008, November week 2
- Violin Advances Enterprise Flash SSD Architecture
2008, November week 3
- Solid Access Launches Fastest 1U SSD
2008,
November week 4 - Sun Beams into Disk Sanitizer Market
2008,
October week 1 - RoboRacer Flips an Optical Disk
2008, October week 2 -
IMEC Revs Up for RRAM Dash to Replace Flash
2008, October week 3 -
Intel Starts Shipping Fast 2.5" SATA flash SSDs
2008,
October week 4 - Plasmon Restructures as New Company
the Top 10
SSD OEMs - in Q3 2008
2008, September week 1
- CFast Standard Now Available
2008, September week 2
- Fusion-io Unveils fast NAS SSD
2008,
September week 3 - Samsung Loses Patience with SanDisk Management
2008, September week 4
- Cypress Integrates nvSRAM in Controller
2008, August week 1 -
Violin Delivers 1 Million IOPS via a Single Port
2008, August
week 2 - Bus-Tech VTL Emulates 256 Mainframe Tape Drives
2008, August week 3 -
STMicroelectronics Demos 6Gb/s SATA
2008, August week 4 -
Royal Bank of Scotland's Customer List Sold on eBay
the Top 10 SSD OEMs - in
Q2 2008
2008,
July week 1 - SSD-CPU Equivalence - new term / old idea
2008, July week 2 -
ATTO Launches 16 Port SAS RAID PCIe HBA
2008, July week 3 -
Samsung & Sun Work on High Endurance flash SSDs
2008, July week 4 -
Corsair Sets Cool Record for DDR3
2008, June week 1 - Sun
Announces SSD Product Plans
2008, June week 2 -
Panasas Storage Powers Fastest Supercomputer
2008, June week 3 -
Mtron Unveils 240MB/S Flash SSD Technology
2008, June week 4 -
EcoRAM Slims Server Watts
2008, May week 1 -
Flash SSD Prices Plunge
2008, May week 2 -
Toshiba Announces Bigger Car Drive
2008, May week 3 - AMCC
Confirms Plans to Support Flash SSD RAID
2008, May
week 4 - Samsung Previews Fast 2.5" SSD
2008, April week 1 -
6Gb/s SAS Storage Comes Closer
2008, April week 2 -
IBM Previews Racetrack Solid State Storage
2008, April week 3 -
Seagate Sues STEC
2008, April week 4
- WD Reports 43% HDD Revenue Growth
the Top 10 Solid State
Disk OEMs - Q1 2008
2008, March week 1 -
SeaChange Eliminates Spinning Disks in Broadcast Chain
2008, March week 2 -
LSI Acquires Infineon's HDD Chip Business
2008, March week 3 -
IMI Launches SATA SSD Testers
2008, March week 4 -
Fusion-io Gets $19 million Funding for PCIe SSD
2008, February week 1 -
Intel & STMicro Sample Phase Change Memory
2008, February week 2 -
Aleratec Launches 3 Way Blu-ray Duplicator
2008, February week 3 -
HD DVD Retires Early
2008, February week 4 -
STEC Shows Fastest CompactFlash SSD
2008, January week 1 -
Samsung Demos 128GB Notebook SSD at CES
2008,
January week 2 - Intel and Micron Unveil Fastest Flash Memory
2008, January week 3 -
EMC Re-enters the SSD Market
2008, January week 4 -
Nanochip Aims to Trash Flash
2007
SSD
Market History - 2007
the Top 10 Solid State
Disk OEMs - Q407
2007, December week 1 -
STEC Samples 512GB 2.5" SSDs
2007,
December weeks 2 to 4 - Iomega Buys $700 million Hard Disk Maker
2007, November week 1 -
Dell Acquires Leading iSCSI Company
2007, November week 2 -
BiTMICRO Unveils 1.6T 3.5" Flash SSDs
2007, November
week 3 - New Maxtor Disks Were Infected by Virus
2007, November week 4 -
Micron Joins the SSD Pack
2007, October week 1 -
DDR3-1333 Memory Kits Shipping
2007, October
week 2 - Panasas Targets RAID Unreliability
2007, October week 3 -
Hitachi's Technology will deliver 4TB Hard Drives
2007, October week 4 -
Seagate Pays for Shrinking the Kilobyte
the Top
10 SSD OEMs - Q307
2007, September week 1
- Nirvanix Aims at Amazon's S3 Market
2007,
September week 2 - Formation Launches 320GB 3.5" SATA ToughDisk
2007, September
week 3 - TMS Launches World's Fastest Flash SSD
2007,
September week 4 - Fusion-io Launches PCIe flash SSD
2007, August week 1 -
Flash SSDs Get 100x Faster Writes
2007, August week 2 -
STEC Announces Native SAS Flash SSDs
2007, August weeks 3 to
4 - Toshiba Announces 320G 2.5" SATA Drives
2007, July week 1 -
SmartDisk Exits Hard Disk Market
2007, July week 2 -
Sanbolic Accelerates Clustered NAS Writes
2007, July weeks 3 - 4
- Solid Data Launches Terabyte SSD
the Top 10 SSD OEMs -
Q207
2007,
June week 1 - Idealstor Qualifies Terabyte Removable Disk Backup
2007, June week 2 -
Pivot3 Launches RAIGE
2007, June week 3 -
Seagate Launches New 400G 10k RPM SAS Hard Drive
2007, June week 4 -
New Company Aims Death Ray at Blu-ray Archiving
2007,
May week 1 - MOSAID Promises 800M bytes/ sec Flash SSDs
2007, May week 2 -
STEC has $100 million SSD War Chest
2007, May week 3 -
Catalyst Introduces 6Gb/s SAS Emulators
2007, May
week 4 - A New $4 billion Non-Volatile Storage Company is Born
2007, April week 1 -
First 8Gbps Fibre Channel Protocol Analyzer
2007, April week 2 -
Seagate Launches DIY Data Recovery Software
2007, April week 3 -
Mellanox Demos 40Gb/s Over Copper
2007, April week 4 -
CebaTech Launches iSCSI Chips
2007, March week 1 -
60nm DRAM in Production
2007, March week 2 -
Intel Enters the SSD Market
2007, March week 3 -
Maxell Launches World's 1st iVDR Hard Drive
2007, March week 4 -
Silicon Image Ships 2nd Generation Storage Processors
2007, February week 1 -
Mellanox Announces IPO Details
2007, February week
2 - SimpleTech Divests RAM Business to Focus on SSDs
2007, February week
3 - Aleratec Super Tower Duplicates 120 DVDs Per Hour
2007, February week
4 - Hard Disk MTBF Specs Incredible - Say User Reports
2007, January week 1 -
First Terabyte Hard Drive
2007, January week 2
- RELDATA Reports 300% Sales Growth
2007, January week 3 -
Seagate Ships Record Breaking 2.5" SAS HDDs
2007, January week 4
- STEC Showcases Thinnest 2.5" 64G SSD
2006
Squeak! -
the 2006 Solid State Disks Buyers Guide
2006, December week 1 -
Toshiba Launches 100G 1.8" HDD
2006, December week
2 - More Sites Use iSCSI than Fibre Channel SAN
2006, December week
3-4 - Expansion Box Extends Tape Library to 10 Petabytes
2006, November week 1 -
Kanguru Fingerprints USB Flash
2006, November week
2 - Msystems' Shareholders Vote Yes to SanDisk
2006, November week
3-4 - ILM? - What ILM? - Say Thousands of IT Managers
2006, October week 1 -
Tandberg Launches RDX QuikStor Disk Backup
2006, October week 2
- Dell Says No - to More Tape Libraries
2006, October week 3
- AMCC Ships Fastest RAID 6 SATA II RAID Controller
2006, October week 4
- Plextor Ships 10X DVD+R
2006,
September week 1 - DRAM Prices Rising - Says iSuppli
2006, September week
2 - SiliconSystems Announces Investment by Samsung
2006, September week
3 - InfiniBand Users May be Lonesome Tonight
2006, September week
4 - Intel Launches New Storage Processors
2006,
August week 1 - Cornice Announces Thinnest 1" 12GB Hard Drive
2006, August week 2
- Nimbus Unveils Free iSCSI Target Software for Windows
2006, August week 3
- Intel will Bundle Diskeeper with Motherboards
2006, August week 4
- Tandberg Acquires Exabyte
2006,
July week 1 - Seagate Drives in Himalayan Trek
2006, July week 2 -
Seagate and Adaptec Offer SAS / SATA RAID Kit
2006, July week 3 -
New SSD Systems Scale to Tens of Terabytes
2006, July week 4 -
Samsung Prepares for SSD-Aware PC Market
2006,
June week 1 - Rambus Notches Up 500th Patent
2006, June week 2 -
Seagate Enters the Online Storage Market
2006, June week 3 -
EqualLogic Overtakes EMC in iSCSI Market Share
2006, June week 4 -
Toshiba Buying Into Next Generation DVD Market
2006,
May week 1 - Will Phone Hard Drives Kill the iPod?
2006, May week 2 -
Cornice Aims to be #1 HDD Supplier in Phone Market
2006, May week 3 -
Fujifilm will Soon Ship 25G Blu-ray Disks
2006, May week 4 -
Fujitsu Launches Tape / Disk Degausser
2006, April week 1 -
Cirrus Offers NAS on a Chip
2006, April week 2 -
iSuppli Ranks Top HDD OEMs
2006, April week 3 -
StorageNewsletter Acquires Mass Storage News
2006, April week 4 -
McNealy Gives Up the CEO Hot Seat at Sun
2006, March week 1 -
Samsung Shows World's First Hard Disk Phone
2006, March week 2 -
Amazon Enters the Online Storage Services Market
2006, March week 3 -
Serial Attached SCSI - is it worth the wait?
2006, March week 4 -
iVivity Ships Wire Speed 10Gbps iSCSI HBA
2006,
February week 1 - Nimbus and Chelsio Aim for Fastest iSCSI Storage
2006, February week
2 - Samsung Announces Fastest GDDR4
2006, February week
3 - Hitachi Opens New Hard Disk Mega Factory
2006, February week
4 - QLogic is Fibre Channel HBA Market Leader
2006, January week 1 -
New HDD Lets Users View Head Seeks
2006, January week 2
- Avoiding - Oh My God! - the Backup Killed Kenny
2006, January week 3
- Seagate Ships 160GB Notebook HDD
2006, January week 4
- EMC Announces Petabyte Disk Storage Array
2005
Squeak! - the
Top 10 Storage Software Companies - 2005
Squeak! - the
Fastest Growing Storage Companies in 2005
2005 December week 1 -
Storage Product Category of the Year 2005
2005
December 2 - Declining DRAM Market Fuels Switch to Flash
2005 December 3-4 -
Pioneer Launches Blu-ray Disc Drives
2005 November week 1 -
ProStor Unveils New Backup Technology - RDX
2005 November week 2
- Sony's Hard Disk Focuses on Camera Flash Slots
2005 November week 3
- TMS Demonstrates Native InfiniBand Solid State Disk
2005 November week 4
- Asigra Says "No" to Outmoded Veritas Costs
2005, October week 1 -
Imation Packs Hard Drive into LTO
2005, October week
2 - Nexsan says - the AutoMAID is not for turning
2005, October week
3 - McDATA Surpasses 20,000 Director Milestone
2005, October week
4 - Intel Launches Network Storage Systems
2005, September week 1
- iTunes Service Starts on Cellphones
2005, September week
2 - World's First Dual Interface Flash SSD
2005, September week
3 - The Tale of Pigling E-Disk
2005, September week
4 - Microsoft Gets into Disk to Disk Backup
2005, August week 1 -
LSI Logic Ships Production 4Gb/s Fibre Channel
2005, August week 2
- DDR2 Memory Volumes Overtake DDR1
2005, August week 3
- Seagate Ships SATA Drives for D2d Market
2005, August week 4
- Ramtron Chip Aims at Car Crash Recorders
2005,
July week 1 - Hard Drives Target the Bedroom
2005, July week 2 -
Disk Purge Comes to Linux
2005, July week 3-4
- EMC Announces World's Largest Storage Array
2005, June week 1 - Sun
Acquires StorageTek
2005, June week 2 -
DISUK Launches SafeTape
2005, June week 3 -
Mellanox Ships 60Gb/s InfiniBand
2005, June week 4 -
FCIA Supports SATA Tunneling
2005, May week 1 -
Seagate and Cornice Reach Partial Settlement
2005, May week 2 -
LeWiz is the Fastest TCP/IP Offload HBA
2005, May week 3 -
M-Systems Has Biggest Fastest Flash Drive
2005, May week 4 -
Funding for 300GB Holo Drive Reaches $61M
2005, April week 1 -
IBM to Resell NAS from NetApp
2005, April week 2 -
emBoot announces the death of the iSCSI HBA
2005, April week 3 -
SmartDisk Introduces Portable DVR
2005, April week 4 -
Topio Secures $8 million Round of Funding
2005,
March week 1 - Emulex Introduces 4Gb/s PCI Express FC Adapters
2005, March week 2 -
Fujitsu Delivers Production Serial SCSI Hard Drives
2005, March week 3 -
Overland Claims to be #1 in Disk to Disk Backup
2005, March week 4 -
New World Record Set for iSCSI Throughput
2005, February week 1 -
BiTMICRO is #1 Recognized Solid-State Disks Brand
2005, February week
2 - HP Ousts Fiorina
2005, February week
3 - ADTX is #1 in ATA/SATA Storage in Japan
2005, February week
4 - Seagate Ships 6GB 1" Hard Drive
2005, January week 1 -
OPTWARE's New HVD Signals Sayonara to DVDs
2005, January week
2 - Apple Sold 4.5 million iPods in First Quarter
2005, January week
3 - Maxell Announces DVD that will Endure
2005, January week
4 - Incipient, Inc., Secures $20M Series C Funding
2004
the
Solid State Disks Buyers Guide - 2004
the Top 10
Storage Software Companies - 2004
the Fastest
Growing STORAGE companies in 2004
the Rising Stars of
Storage and the Dogs which Failed to Bark in 2004
the State of iSCSI in 2004 -
products fail to match hype
2004 December week 1 -
Worldwide SAN Market Flat
2004 December week 2
- Hitachi's 1 Inch Hard Drive is 5
2004 December weeks
3 - 4 - VERITAS Merges with Symantec
2004
November week 1 - Globalstor's Video RAID Sustains 1,000MB/S
2004 November week 2
- Seagate Samples Serial SCSI Drives
2004 November week 3
- Tabernus Releases DOD Certified Disk Purge
2004 November week 4
- Megabyte's Holiday Adventures (cartoon)
2004, October week 1 -
CentricStor Backs Up 8.6TB / Hour to SATA
2004, October week
2 - Sun Microsystems to Resell Solid State Disks
2004, October week
3 - Kashya Clusters Windows Over 2,000 miles
2004, October week
4 - BiTMICRO Ships 1st Ultra320 SCSI Flash SSD
2004, September week 1
- iSCSI Gets Solid State Disk Targets
2004, September week
2 - SATA-IO Organization Formed
2004, September week
3 - Infineon Pays $160 million Fine to DoJ
2004, September week
4 - Iomega Ships 16x Double-Layer DVD Drives
2004,
August weeks 1 - 2 - Toshiba Launches 60G 1.8" Drives
2004, August week 3
- Vitesse Ships 8Gbps Capable Fibre Channel Chips
2004, August week 4
- LSI Logic Demos 1st SATA II Controller
2004,
July week 1 - Cornice Slammed by Another Disk Patent Suit
2004, July week 2 -
Adaptec to Acquire Snap Appliance
2004, July week 3 -
Adtron Introduces First SATA Flash SSD
2004, July week 4 -
DiskOnKey Unlocks 2GB
2004, June week 1 -
LightSand Demos 1,000 km (600 miles) SAN Mirroring
2004, June week 2 -
Elpida Invests $4 Billion in Memory Fab
2004, June week 3 -
iSCSI Company Xiran Closes Down
2004, June week 4 -
The World's Largest DRAM Production Facility
2004, May week 1 -
Imation Launches Terabyte-Class Magnetic Tape Fab
2004, May week 2 -
Gartner Says More than 25% of Critical Data is Flawed
2004, May week 3 -
BiTMICRO Introduces PMC Flash Disk
2004, May week 4 -
Cybernetics Tape Library Packs 15TB Backup into 4U
2004,
April week 1 - Sun Licenses NAS Technology from Procom
2004, April week 2 -
ActionFront Sets New Milestone for Data Recovery
2004, April week 3 -
Intel Cranks Up SATA Speed to 3Gbps
2004, April week 4 -
Toshiba Ships 100GB 2.5" Hard Disks
article:- Megabyte's
Storage Market Review Q1 2004
2004, March week 1 -
Broadcom Does NAS on a Chip
2004, March week 2 -
Hitachi announces 400GB hard drive
2004, March week 3 -
BiTMICRO Unveils 16TB Solid State SAN Accelerator
2004, March week 4 -
DiskOnChip Used in Smartphones Throughout China
2004, February week 1 -
Cornice Secures $51 Million In Venture Funding
2004, February week
2 - Maranti Secures $26 Million Series C Funding
2004, February week
3 - Seagate Launches 2.5" 10K RPM Enterprise Disk Drive
2004, February week
4 - M-Systems will develop removable flash for Xbox
2004, January week 1 -
Toshiba Introduces World's Smallest Hard Drive
2004, January week
2 - LaCie Ships Universal Dual 8x DVD±RW Drive
2004, January week
3 - LSI Logic Delivers First SAS Controller IC
2004, January week
4 - Ideas Int'l Launches Storage Street Pricing Service
2003
article:-
Chewing over 2003
Squeak! - The
Fastest Growing STORAGE companies in 2003
Squeak! - the
Top 10 Storage Software Companies - 2003
Squeak! -
the Solid State Disks Buyers Guide - 2003
2003, December week 1 -
Disk Storage Market Declined Says IDC
2003, December week
2 - Decru Secures Tape Backup
2003, December week
s 3 to 4 - Data Domain Gets $17 Million in Funding
2003,
November week 1 - SBS Launches 1st PMC InfiniBand Adapter
2003, November week
2 - ATAbaby Twins - the Tape Terminaters
2003, November week
3 - 3ware Cuts SATA Cabling
2003, November week
4 - Quantum Corp defragments itself
2003, October week 1 -
Olixir Launches Rugged Portable 3.5" Hard Disk Drive
2003, October week 2
- Memtech's SSD Endurance Surpasses 8 Million Writes
2003, October week 3
- Diskology Releases Disk Jockey
2003, October week 4
- SanDisk and Fujifilm Sign xD-Picture Cards Agreement
2003,
September week 1 - Plasmon to showcase UDO drives
2003, September week
2 - Storage Server 2003 is Now Available
2003, September week
3 - First PCI Express Fibre Channel HBA
2003, September week
4 - SAMSUNG Announces Flash Memory Breakthrough
2003, August week 1 -
Ramtron ships 1st 0.35 micron FRAM
2003, August
week 2 - Solid State Disks - a $10 Billion Market in 2007?
2003, August week 3
- Recovering Data after NY & Canada Grid Crash
2003, August week 4
- InfiniCon Demonstrates 150,000 IOPS Performance
2003, July week 1 -
TeraCloud Announces Free Fibre Channel Ping Utility
2003, July week 2
- Promise Technology Selects Ramtron's FRAM for RAID
2003, July week 3 -
BlueArc Secures $47 Million New Funding
2003, July week 4 -
StorageNetworks Announces Liquidation Plan
2003, June week 1 -
Unigen Gets Patent for NV Data Protection
2003, June week 2
- Intel Sells ICP Vortex to Adaptec
2003, June week 3
- NetApp Acquires Auspex Patent Portfolio
2003, June week 4
- LSI teams with Seagate to drive SAS interoperability
2003,
May week 1 - "Tape is a thing of the past" - says Diamond Lauffin at
Nexsan
2003, May week 2 -
Imperial launches WhatsHot SSD tool
2003, May week 3 -
InoStor Gets US Patent for RAIDn
2003, May week 4 -
Tandberg Data ASA demerges
2003, April week 1 -
Emulex Ships One Millionth Fibre Channel HBA
2003, April week 2
- - Spectra ships native iSCSI tape libraries
2003, April week 3
- Seagate Overtakes EMC in Annual Storage Revenue
2003, April week 4
- CENATEK Announces Availability of RAMDisk XP
2003, March week 1 -
Sony Unveils USB/FireWire AIT Drives for SOHOs
2003, March week 2
- Tandberg Data introduces RAIDn technology
2003, March week 3 -
Aristos Logic Secures $20 Million in Series C Funding
2003, March week 4 -
HP Releases iSCSI Driver for HP-UX Servers
2003, February week 1 -
IBM Delivers First Bluefin Storage
2003, February week
2 - Adaptec Products Support Final iSCSI Standard
2003, February week
3 - Sony Busts 1TB Tape Barrier
2003, February week
4 - world's first terabyte class SSDs announced
2003, January week 1 -
HP Introduces Fastest Ever DVD Writers
2003, January week 2
- AMD and M-Systems Expand Flash Agreement
2003, January week 3
- Fibre-channel grows to 71% of QLogic's business
2003, January week 4
- Topio closes $10M 2nd round VC funding
2003, January week 5
- Paralan Launches Ultra320 SCSI HBAs
2002
article:- Chewing over
2002
Squeak! - The
Fastest Growing STORAGE companies in 2002
article:- the
Top 10 Storage Software companies 2002
2002, December week 1
- ADIC to Supply Tape Libraries to Sun
2002, December week
2 - YottaYotta Sets Record for Disk-to-Disk Bulk Transfer
2002, December
weeks 3 - 4 - EMC Ranked 1 in Storage Brand Awareness
2002, November week 1
- ActionFront completes 10,000 Data Recoveries
2002, November week
2 - InfiniCon is First to Deliver End-to-End InfiniBand
2002, November week
3a - ASACA Launches FireFly Digital VTL
2002, November week
3b - Silicon Image's SATA Controller Selected by Adaptec
2002, November week
4 - Micron Samples 1st DDR SDRAM 32-Bit DIMMS
2002, October week 1a
- Arkeia Announces MySQL Plug-in
2002, October week
1b - JMR Launches StorBlade
2002, October week
2 - Maxtor One Touch Disk Backup
2002, October week
3a - SnapApp is Back
2002, October week
3b - The New Goldrush? - Network Accelerators
2002, October week
4 - CNT Makes Remote Tape Backup Look Local
2002, October week
5 - Big Iron gets an iSCSI Facelift ,
2002, September week 1
- Microsoft Delivers Multipath I/O for Storage
2002, September
week 2a - Maxell Ships One Millionth Super DLTtape Cartridge
2002, September
week 2b - Intel Unveils SATA RAID and iSCSI
2002, September
week 3a - New Licensees for Quad Band Memory
2002, September
week 3b - Imperial Raises the IQ of SSD SAN Accelerators
2002, September
week 4 - Qualstar Ends 9 Track Tape Drives Production
2002, September
week 5 - StorageTek Unveils Fastest, Highest Capacity Tape Drive
2002,
August week 1 - Dot Hill Ships 5000th SANnet Storage System
2002, August week 2a
- IBM Ships Seagate's 15K Ultra320 Cheetahs in RAIDs
2002, August week 2b
- 3ware Ships 1st Enterprise Class SATA Controller
2002, August week 3a
- Cisco Enters Fibre Channel SAN Switch Market
2002, August week 3b
- Seagate Demos Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording
2002, August week 4a
- I/OMagic is #1 Seller of CD-RW Drives in USA
2002, August week 4b
- M-Systems & Toshiba Collaborate on SSD DiskOnChip
2002,
July week 1 - Intel Celebrates 1 Billion PCs
2002, July week 2
- InfiniCon Launches InfiniBand Starter Kits
2002, July week 3a
- SNIA Launches Storage Security Group
2002, July week 3b
- EMC and HP Cross License Storage APIs
2002, July week 4a
- DataDirect Announces Plug and Play SAN
2002, July week 4b
- 2 out 3 Data Centers Deploy SANs,
2002,
June week 1 - LSI Announces 1st Ultra320 PCI RAID
2002, June week 2a
- Nexsan Launches Multi-Terabyte D2d Backup
2002, June week 2b
- 1st Chipsets with Integrated USB 2.0
2002, June week 3
- DiskOnChip Capacity Rises to 1 Gigabyte
2002, June week 4a
- Western Digital Delivers 1st 200GB Hard Drives
2002, June week 4b
- Archiving Digital Data for 100 Years
2002,
May week 1a - 2 Terabytes / Hour Backup Milestone
,
1b,
2002, May week
2a - 1st Flash Memory Based on MirrorBit Architecture
2b,
3a,
3b,
4a,
4b,
2002, April week 1
2a,
2b,
3a,
3b,
4a,
4b,
2002, March - week 1 -
BiTMICRO and CENATEK collaborate on PCI SSD
2002, March week
2a - Pirus Networks Ships First Intelligent Storage Switch
2002, March
week 2b - SanDisk Launches World's Largest Capacity CF Card
2002, March week
3a - Cypress Ships 2 Million USB 2.0 Units
2002, March week
3b - Moulin Rouge Soundtrack Backed Up on VXA-1 Tape
2002, March week
4a - Infineon Samples Gigabyte DDR SDRAM
2002, March week
4b - Overland Brings Infiniband to Tape Market
2002, February - week
1a,
1b,
2a,
2b,
3,
4,
2002, January - week 1,
2,
3a,
3b,
4a,
4b,
5,
2001
article:-
2001 a Year to Forget
Squeak! - The
Fastest Growing STORAGE companies in 2001
article:- the
Top 10 Storage Software companies 2001
2001, December - week
1a
2001, December -
week 1b - Kentron Announces Quad Band Memory Roadmap
2001, December -
week 2a,
2001, December -
weeks 3 to 4,
2001, November - week
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1b,
2a,
2b,
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4,
2001, October - week
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1b,
2a,
2b,
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2001, October -
week 4 - Alacritech Ships Industry's 1st GbE Accelerator
4b,
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2001,
September - week 1,
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2001, August - week 1,
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2001, July - week 1,
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2001, June - week 1
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2001, June - week
2 - Adtron Ships 14GB 3.5" SCSI Flash SSD
3,
4,
2001,
May - week 1,
2001, May - week 2
- VXA-1 Tape Drives Gain Acceptance in Mac Market ,
3,
4,
5,
2001, April - week 1 -
World's 1st NAS Refragmenter
2001, April - week
2 - NetApp Endorses iSCSI
2001, April - week
3 - Sony Transitions DDS Tape Format
2001, April - week
4 - Paceline Secures $20 million for InfiniBand
2001, March - week 1,
2001, March - week
2,
2001, March - week
3,
2001, March - week
4 - StorageSearch.com publishes 1st iSCSI directory
2001, February - week
1,
2,
3
2001, February -
week 4 - 1st Mention of Serial ATA /SATA
2001, January - week
1,
2,
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2000
2000, December
- week 1,
2000, December -
week 2 - Imperial's SSDs are eBay's Holiday Helpers,
2000, December -
weeks 3 to 4 - WorldStor Locks Up $33 million 2nd Round ,
2000,
November - week 1,
2,
3,
4,
2000, October - week 1,
2,
3,
2000, October -
week 4 - EMC Study Finds Explosive Data Growth,
2000, September
- week 1 - Maxoptix launches DVD-RAM Libraries,
2,
3,
4,
2000,
August - weeks 1-2
2000, August - week
3
2000, August - week
4 - 1st SATA HDD Unveiled at IDF
January,
February,
March,
April,
May ,
2000, June - HP
partners with EMusic.com
July - weeks 1-2
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Here are some other dates from
storage history...
1999 - a terabyte of RAID storage cost
$79,000. Scroll to the foot of this page to see the contemporary banner ad we
ran with that price point from
Dynamic Network Factory.
Artecon
merged with
Box
Hill Systems to become Dot
Hill
1998 -
STORAGEsearch.com is launched in
September 1998.
Also, in the same month,
Google Inc.
is incorporated as a company.
1997 -
Imation launches the
SuperDisk
- which was a very high capacity (at the time)
floppy disk drive -
offering nearly 100x the capacity of an industry standard floppy disk. DEC ran
an
ad
for its StorageWorks in our SPARC Directory to target Sun users - who spents
billions of dollars on 3rd party storage from DEC and EMC in the following
years because they were much better than Sun's own storage arrays.
1995 - Xiotech
founded.
How big were disk drives and memory in 1995? -
Sun Microsystems
launched
its first 64
bit SPARC workstations, the Ultra-1 and 2. RAM was upto 512MB. The internal 3.5"
hard disk provided upto 4.2GB capacity.
1994 - first directory of
Fibre-channel adapters
published in ACSL's SPARC
Product Directory
Ancot ships first Fibre
Channel analyzer.
1991 -
ACSL, publisher
of
STORAGEsearch.com founded. Our
first product (1992) was a printed directory of Sun SBus compatible host bus
adapters, and SPARC workstations and servers.
1988 - CMS
Peripherals founded.
1987 -
RAID concept created by
the University of California at Berkeley
Plasmon founded.
Bus-Tech founded.
1986 - the editor, then working as hardware manager at a UK
company called Databasix, was tasked with designing a disk array controller to
parallelize the data transfer from multiple low cost 5.25" hard disks. We
didn't call them RAIDs in those days - because the term hadn't been invented yet
- but the concept was not new. The prototype proved the concept - but we
didn't productise it.
1985 -
PNY Technologies founded
1984 -
Qualstar founded.
1981 -
SCSI interface launched as
a virtual intelligent disk drive connection.
LSI Logic founded by by
Wilf Corrigan.
1980 -
BMC Software founded.
Overland Storage
founded.
1979 - Egan and Roger Marino start
EMC.
Spectra Logic
founded.
Seagate
Technology founded. Its first product, the ST506 hard drive, had a capacity
of 5 megabytes.
SASI interface created by Shugart Associates. This was the precursor
to SCSI (parallel SCSI) -
article:- SCSI
History - PCGuide.com
1978 -
Texas Memory Systems
founded.
Memories of 1978
Editor:- as an "experienced"
(1 year out of college) electronics engineer in 1978 - I started designing and
managing my own first complete product (an automated fuel flow consumption meter
and data logger for engine test beds) using Intel's 8748 microprocessor. That
was a single chip micro with I/O, timers, program and user memory all on the
same chip. The memory capacity was 1k bytes (1, 024 bytes) and the RAM
was 64 bytes!
I managed to squeeze everything, including the
operating system, into the 1k with about 5 bytes to spare - because the
assembly language instructions were very efficient and occupied just 1 or 2
bytes, and I used a lot of subroutines.
Needing quite sophisticated
maths and not having the time nor inclination nor memory to do this - I cheated
by adding in a calculator chip as a co-processor. In future designs, as I got
more experienced, and the development tools got better I did more in software
and less in hardware, and made sure there were sockets for expansion memory!
In my next project - moving on from manually looking up assembly language hex
codes printed on a card edited on RAM and archived on EPROM (Prompt-48
development system) - to a development system which was more like a modern
computer was a great productivity aid
Intel's (blue box)
development system at that time cost more than my house - which is why we only
bought one after we had proved this was going to be a viable business. It
included a text editor (called Edit), an assembly language linker and loader,
an in-circuit emulation system, 8 bit 8080 processor with 32K RAM and a VDU and
floppy disk drive. It ran an operating system called Isis - which was the
model for CP/M, and later, DOS.
BTW - I didn't complain too much
about the Prompt-48 - which was my idea to save cost compared to using external
consultants. In fact we rented it. It was a step up from what was used in an
earlier microprocessor project - which I managed - having just come out of
college but having read some micro manuals - which was as much experience as
anyone else had in those days.
In that earlier, 1977 system, (a ship's diesel engine training simulator with
over 400 digital, and 50 analog I/O in a 15 foot long, 6 foot high metal
control panel covered in switches, lamps and meters) the development tools
consisted of a teletype which punched hex codes onto paper tape. We used to
spool hundreds of feet of paper tape all over the floor. That's what suggested
the icon we now use on STORAGEsearch.com for storage software. Click on the
image (right) to see a bigger picture of the tape and hedgehogs.
1976 - the world's #1 personal computer - the APPLE-II - is
launched with 48k bytes on-board RAM - from
Apple II History.
How much memory is that? Well a kilobyte is about a thousand times smaller than
a megabyte, which in turn is a thousand times smaller than a gigabyte. The
whole PC had a memory about 1, 000 times smaller than the smallest flash memory
sticks available circa 2003.
1972 - IBM's
8 inch floppy drive the
IBM 3740 hits the market. Capacity is 250K bytes.
1970 -
Intel launches the first
commercially successful dynamic RAM
1979 -
Western Digital
founded.
1969 -
StorageTek founded.
1967
- Dataram founded.
1956
- IBM invented the hard
drive in San Jose, California and delivered it on September 13, 1956 as the
RAMAC (Random Access Method of Accounting and Control.) ... from a
Hitachi news story.
1953 - IBM 650
Magnetic Drum Data Processing System Machine is announced.
1949
- An Wang invents magnetic
core store.
article:-
5 Decades of Magnetic Data Storage (1940's to 1990's) - by A. S. Hoagland,
formerly with IBM, (pdf) |
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It's many years since
you've seen a storage ad with this kind of pricing. We ran this ad on the left
from Dynamic Network Factory
in 1999. You can see more old storage ads in our
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