Tag archive: storage
Data access method determines which way data exchange between compute system (host) and storage will be going through. There are 3 ways, completely different, with utilization of different mechanism and protocols. File, Block and Object level Storage access characterizes with different speed, reliability and efficiency. Moreover, they require completely different appliances, but sometimes they can be “merged”…
Backup is the keyword in case of data storage. Even the newest technologies deployed will not work out if one day turns out that some hard drives with crucial data don’t work, RAID may failed owing to the numbers of broken hard disks, your SAN has been destroyed or data have been accidentally (or not) permamently…
In the perfect world storage systems consists of SSD flash drives with a lot quantity of RAM memory which works as a cache. Then you don’t have to worry about read/write latencies (unless the network part is a bottleneck). It is a perfect world, usually modern storage system consists of mixed SSD and SAS (serial attached SCSI) disks…