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Dell Says 90% of Recorded Business Data Is Never Read

Posted by timothy on from the sounds-lowball-no-matter-the-methodology dept.

Barence writes "According to a Dell briefing given to PC Pro, 90% of company data is written once and never read again. If Dell's observation about dead weight is right, then it could easily turn out that splitting your data between live and old, fast and slow, work-in-progress versus archive, will become the dominant way to price and specify your servers and network architectures in the future. 'The only remaining question will then be: why on earth did we squander so much money by not thinking this way until now?'" As the writer points out, the "90 percent" figure is ambiguous, to put it lightly.

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  1. Coincidence? by Hognoxious · · Score: 5, Funny

    90% - just like the percentage of statistics that are made up on the spot.

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    1. Re:Coincidence? by dov_0 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Or is dell about to make a press release about faulty storage in their servers resulting in about 90% data loss?

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    2. Re:Coincidence? by espiesp · · Score: 5, Funny

      Or having developed a new memory technology.

      "Dell releases a new drive based on their patented WORN architecture. Because this device forgoes the need to read your data they can be made lighter and faster and more power efficient than even the latest SSD drive technology."

  2. Perfect by Andreaskem · · Score: 4, Funny

    A perfect application for my patented write-only memory.

  3. Signetics invented the needed chip back in the 70s by ve3id · · Score: 3, Funny

    FINALLY !!! AN APPLICATION FOR THE WOM!!!! http://www.national.com/rap/files/datasheet.pdf Bob Pease sure was fore-sighted, since this memory chip was invented back in the seventies!

  4. this is actionable: think of the storage savings by rubycodez · · Score: 4, Funny

    this helps me to be a better employee. From now on I'll only save 25% of the data I acquire, because the odds are the other 75% would only be needed 7.5% of the time. In other words, 92.5% chance not likely to be needed at all.

  5. Much, much higher - probably 99% +++ by petes_PoV · · Score: 3, Funny

    If you're talking about blog entries. Almost all of them (well, almost all of *mine* :-) are written once and never read, unless you count spiders as reading them.

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  6. Re:Which 90% ? by camperdave · · Score: 2, Funny

    People change addresses and phone numbers at the drop of a hat, so recording that would be pointless.

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  7. If Dell is talking about it's failure rate by christoofar · · Score: 2, Funny

    If the data was recorded by Dell computers... then yeah I would expect that 90% of business customers aren't able to read it back.

  8. Re:Which 90% ? by obarthelemy · · Score: 2, Funny

    as someone once said: "50% of my advertising budget is wasted... only I don't know which 50%"

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  9. Re:Which 90% ? by BrokenHalo · · Score: 1, Funny

    Shockingly, this happened in 2008, not 1958.

    Not that shocking when you remember that the flatbed scanner was almost (but not quite) an object of science fiction in 1958.