Storage Trends

Fiber vs. iSCSI
SAS vs. SATA vs. Fiber vs. IDE vs. Solid State
4600 vs. 5400 vs. 7200 vs. 10k vs 15k

Do all of the above make you shake your head and think WHY are there so many choices? Things used to be so easy when all you had was IDE and SCSI drives available. But during those times people didn't expect subsecond response when they clicked on button, then again most business programs didn't have buttons.

I recently had an executive at fairly large company ask me why don't we standardize on things. This same executive asked me at different times, how to get faster response times, how to make a laptops battery last longer, how to make a smaller laptop, how to connect to more storage without adding more wiring and how he could take his video and music collection with him.

All  of the above figures in to the questions he asked.  In future posts I will start explaining the needs and uses of all of those options.