Tag Archives: hardware

How to sell: a guide for technical people

It comes down to something like this:

  • Learn why your customers are seeking out your product and what they really need
  • Make thoughtful production suggestions and discuss implementation
  • Think about the customer’s future growth

via Racker Hacker

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DIMM error rates much greater than we thought

Google and Prof. Bianca Schroeder teamed up on the world’s first large-scale study of RAM errors in the field. They looked at multiple vendors, DRAM densities and DRAM types including DDR1, DDR2 and FB-DIMM.

Nightmare on DIMM street

Via storagemojo.com

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Array disk failures are highly correlated, making RAID 5 two to four times less safe than assumed

An interesting read about disk drives in datacenter environment

via NetApp Weighs In On Disks.

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