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Automated Tiered Storage Coming to Desktops?
roj3 writes "Tiered storage has been the scourge of administrators because the vendors tell us to hold meetings with all departments and then classify data to storage tier based on its type or relative importance. eWeek has a story about a new approach to tiered storage — sorting it all by usage patterns. Regularly used data goes on high-performance storage, idle data goes on slower/cheaper storage. Volumes and files even span several types of drives or RAID levels. Is automated tiered storage headed to desktops?"
From its beginnings, the Hard Drive has leveled the playing field for all files. Everday files can have their content read by thousands, even millions of processes.
The Coalition of Unused Files believes that the desktop is a crucial engine for personal and economic growth. They are working together to urge System Admins to preserve IDE Neutrality, the First Amendment for the Desktop Hard Drive that ensures that the Desktop remains open to innovation and progress.
Cheetos go in the easy-to-reach cabinet next to the fridge.
Beer goes in the fornt on the top shelf of the fridge, milk (eventually cheese, typically) goes on the bottom shelf in the back.
This is automated, since I simply shove things onto the shelves when I get home from the supermarket. Anything I consume and replace ends up at the front. Anything I buy because I 'should' be eating it (like fiber biscuits, or whatever) ends up pushed to the back.
It's automated via metatag, too. Anything tagged 'ice cream' goes in the door of the freezer, anything tagged 'vegetable' gets relegated somewhere in the back, where it quickly develops an inch of ice crystals, to slowly dry out to a freezer-burnt state of suspended animation until I buy a new fridge unit.
This costs no more than regular kitchen storage space, but if you'd like a custom design for you and your loved ones, my consulting fee is $75/hr, or a bag of chips and a six-pack.
"Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Olog-hai
A better example is fire extinguishers -- most of them will literally never be used
If that's the case for you, then I feel sorry for you. You've apparently never known the snowy, probably-toxic joy of Fire Extinguisher Expiration Day. It's the happiest day of the decade.
My single disk raid 0 setup works great...