A Little Ludwig Goes a Long Way

A smattering of opinions on technology, books, business, and culture. Now in its 4th technology iteration.

Disk Performance

19 November 2003

I’m with Scott Loftesness – I’ve got enough storage capacity now, I don’t need all the energies of the storage industry going into capacity increases. What I need are higher performance disk subsystems – given the cheapness of disks and ram, i am surprised we aren’t seeing disks with even more cache, with smarter caches, and i am surprised we are not seeing consumer storage subsystems with data striped across multiple drives, thus getting multiple read heads working on our behalf. And I need more reliable storage – I want my data auto-replicated across multiple disks so I don’t have to worry about backup anymore. Where are the mass market products that address disk performance and data reliability?