http://stuartsierra.com/2008/04/17/disk-is-the-new-tape From programming to everything else Fri, 21 Nov 2008 23:22:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://stuartsierra.com/2008/04/17/disk-is-the-new-tape#comment-32132 Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - Project Cassandra: Facebook's Open Source Alternative to Google BigTable Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:41:16 +0000 http://stuartsierra.com/?p=146#comment-32132 [...] to the system. How important is improving seek time when accessing data on a hard drive? It can make the difference between taking hours versus days to flush a hundred gigabytes of writes to a disk. Disk is the new [...] [...] to the system. How important is improving seek time when accessing data on a hard drive? It can make the difference between taking hours versus days to flush a hundred gigabytes of writes to a disk. Disk is the new [...]

]]> http://stuartsierra.com/2008/04/17/disk-is-the-new-tape#comment-31913 Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - Network Attached Memory: Terracota as an Alternative to Memcached Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:24:02 +0000 http://stuartsierra.com/?p=146#comment-31913 [...] it comes to scaling Web applications, every experienced Web architect eventually realizes that Disk is the New Tape. Getting data from off of the hard drive disk is slow compared to getting it from memory or from [...] [...] it comes to scaling Web applications, every experienced Web architect eventually realizes that Disk is the New Tape. Getting data from off of the hard drive disk is slow compared to getting it from memory or from [...]

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