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Are SSDs Replacing HDDs in Enterprise Storage?
The short answer is that for now, no. Many organizations still use traditional spinning media in their data solutions and tend to be slow to change their infrastructure when it seems costly upfront. The long answer is that when we…
A Brief History of Hard Drives
1956 In 1956, now nearly sixty years ago, IBM introduced the first iteration of the piece of technology we know as the hard disk drive. The 305 RAMAC system came equipped with fifty 24-inch platters and had a total capacity…
Standard RAID Levels Explained
Gillware deals with a lot of failed RAID systems on the side of data recovery. Partially because problems can arise with so many hard drives running, but more likely because their array was not handled correctly. RAID can be extremely complex,…
Gillware Engineering: Meet your data recovery experts
When you send your hard drive off to a data recovery lab, it can be a nerve wracking experience. You want to be sure that the professionals you’re sending your data to are really just that: professional. How can you…
New Memory Category: 3D XPoint
On July 28th, IM Flash Technologies, LLC revealed they had managed to create a new type of memory. The joint venture between Intel and Micron, formed in 2006, has been working together for nearly a decade and has crafted some…
Optical Computing: Light and the Future of Computing
Modern silicon-based computing is running into some serious problems. Mainly, a limit. This limit is based on the size of transistors that we use; once they reach a certain size, electrons are too large to be useful. States become indistinguishable,…
Gillware on the Road: Flash Memory Summit 2015
A couple weeks ago, Gillware Data Recovery attended the Flash Memory Summit in Santa Clara, CA. The conference is designed to provide attendees with practical information on the current state of flash memory and its applications, including solid state drives…
3D NAND – When the Only Way to Go is Up
In the past few years, we’ve seen the invention and development of a technology known as 3D NAND. If you’re not sure what NAND is referring to, it’s the type of flash memory used in USB’s, solid state drives, and…
What is the cloud? Just someone else’s data center
By now, you know that offsite/cloud/online backup is key to a comprehensive data backup strategy. Having local backups is not enough in case of fire, flood, or other natural disaster like a hurricane or tornado. In those cases, having backups…