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Automated Tiered Storage Coming to Desktops?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the not-the-droid-jpgs-you're-looking-for dept.

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?"

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  1. Not so new... by Duncan3 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I was using systems that did this 10 years ago. Granted, back then it was disk+tape not different speed disks, but it's the exact same thing.

    Looks to me like an excuse to charge 8-10x what you should be paying for storage of that size.

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  2. Re:Networks, sure. by dsginter · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I think we'll actually see the opposite:

    With multiple PCs per household, it makes sense to get rid of the hard drives at the PC level and put them in a RAID enclose that is secured into a wall.

    This, however, is a threat to Microsoft because you'll be able to PXE-boot any image of your choice (just think that perhaps your employer or bank supplies their own secure image in order to connect to their resources). Someone needs to get Windows to PXE boot at the hardware level (emulate IDE or something).

    This will be huge but we've got to squeeze Microsoft into it, first. Then, everyone will be free to try linux and see what we've all been jabbering about.

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