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by Chong, Jenson :: Rate this Message:

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Hi,
 
Anybody have insights on this article? Does our ONTAP "Lost Write Protection" address this issue?
 
Regards,
Jenson

A bit of a flaw with SATA disk drives

June 03, 2008
By Jerome Wendt
Network World Asia

High-capacity serial ATA (SATA) disk drives are now a mainstay in many storage systems and make it feasible for almost any company to obtain a storage system with terabytes of capacity at a reasonable cost. Yet these systems reveal a specific, known deficiency of SATA disk drives that demand companies exercise caution as to what environments they deploy these systems into.

A minor flaw with SATA disk drives that high capacity storage systems expose is their bit error rate. Bit errors occur infrequently - about once for every 100 trillion bits. However RAID technology, which is normally used by storage systems to protect against data loss, does not detect if a specific bit on a SATA drive becomes unreadable.

While this is normally not a problem on smaller systems, as storage systems add more capacity, the issue becomes more acute. On systems with more than 10TB of capacity the probability of a specific bit of data becoming unreadable is a distinct possibility. On systems with over 100TB, it becomes almost a certainty.

So the question becomes: Does losing access to one bit of data really matter? Often, it doesn't unless one stores deduplicated data on these systems which is now the fastest growing trend in data storage. When data is deduplicated, the storage system's need to read every bit of data becomes paramount. The inability to access even a bit of data can result in multiple files becoming unreadable since they all may depend on a specific bit of data to complete their reconstruction.

High capacity SATA-based storage systems are the answer to many companies' archiving and backup problems. But SATA bits can bite and using SATA drives to store large amounts of deduplicated data is not always the match made in heaven that vendors make them out to be.

Jerome Wendt is the president and lead analyst at DCIG Inc. You may read his blogs at www.dciginc.com.

 

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NetApp's Raid-DP is the answer you're looking for.
 
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Hi,
 
Anybody have insights on this article? Does our ONTAP "Lost Write Protection" address this issue?
 
Regards,
Jenson

A bit of a flaw with SATA disk drives

June 03, 2008
By Jerome Wendt
Network World Asia

High-capacity serial ATA (SATA) disk drives are now a mainstay in many storage systems and make it feasible for almost any company to obtain a storage system with terabytes of capacity at a reasonable cost. Yet these systems reveal a specific, known deficiency of SATA disk drives that demand companies exercise caution as to what environments they deploy these systems into.

A minor flaw with SATA disk drives that high capacity storage systems expose is their bit error rate. Bit errors occur infrequently - about once for every 100 trillion bits. However RAID technology, which is normally used by storage systems to protect against data loss, does not detect if a specific bit on a SATA drive becomes unreadable.

While this is normally not a problem on smaller systems, as storage systems add more capacity, the issue becomes more acute. On systems with more than 10TB of capacity the probability of a specific bit of data becoming unreadable is a distinct possibility. On systems with over 100TB, it becomes almost a certainty.

So the question becomes: Does losing access to one bit of data really matter? Often, it doesn't unless one stores deduplicated data on these systems which is now the fastest growing trend in data storage. When data is deduplicated, the storage system's need to read every bit of data becomes paramount. The inability to access even a bit of data can result in multiple files becoming unreadable since they all may depend on a specific bit of data to complete their reconstruction.

High capacity SATA-based storage systems are the answer to many companies' archiving and backup problems. But SATA bits can bite and using SATA drives to store large amounts of deduplicated data is not always the match made in heaven that vendors make them out to be.

Jerome Wendt is the president and lead analyst at DCIG Inc. You may read his blogs at www.dciginc.com.

 

RE: Flaw with SATA disks - not suitable for deduplication environment

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It does.  This is old news in the industry for which an effective prescription would be Data ONTAP and current firmware ;-)

Stetson M. Webster
Onsite Professional Services Engineer
PS - North Amer. - East

NetApp
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From: Chong, Jenson
Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 6:54 AM
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Subject: Flaw with SATA disks - not suitable for deduplication environment

Hi,
 
Anybody have insights on this article? Does our ONTAP "Lost Write Protection" address this issue?
 
Regards,
Jenson

A bit of a flaw with SATA disk drives

June 03, 2008
By Jerome Wendt
Network World Asia

High-capacity serial ATA (SATA) disk drives are now a mainstay in many storage systems and make it feasible for almost any company to obtain a storage system with terabytes of capacity at a reasonable cost. Yet these systems reveal a specific, known deficiency of SATA disk drives that demand companies exercise caution as to what environments they deploy these systems into.

A minor flaw with SATA disk drives that high capacity storage systems expose is their bit error rate. Bit errors occur infrequently - about once for every 100 trillion bits. However RAID technology, which is normally used by storage systems to protect against data loss, does not detect if a specific bit on a SATA drive becomes unreadable.

While this is normally not a problem on smaller systems, as storage systems add more capacity, the issue becomes more acute. On systems with more than 10TB of capacity the probability of a specific bit of data becoming unreadable is a distinct possibility. On systems with over 100TB, it becomes almost a certainty.

So the question becomes: Does losing access to one bit of data really matter? Often, it doesn't unless one stores deduplicated data on these systems which is now the fastest growing trend in data storage. When data is deduplicated, the storage system's need to read every bit of data becomes paramount. The inability to access even a bit of data can result in multiple files becoming unreadable since they all may depend on a specific bit of data to complete their reconstruction.

High capacity SATA-based storage systems are the answer to many companies' archiving and backup problems. But SATA bits can bite and using SATA drives to store large amounts of deduplicated data is not always the match made in heaven that vendors make them out to be.

Jerome Wendt is the president and lead analyst at DCIG Inc. You may read his blogs at www.dciginc.com.

 


Re: Flaw with SATA disks - not suitable for deduplication environment

by dlambert_bmt :: Rate this Message:

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I disagree with the statement that "RAID technology [...] does not detect if a
specific bit on a SATA drive becomes unreadable."  If a bit is unreadable or
reads back as the wrong value, RAID-5 (or NetApp's RAID-DP) can detect and
fix the error when the data is read back.  

(Note that if the data is never read back,  then it's immaterial whether it's
correct.)

Deduplication does not increase this risk.  In fact, deduplication means that
the duplicated data is read back more often,  which should mean that any
errors that occur would be detected sooner.

On Thursday 05 June 2008 06:54:15 am Chong, Jenson wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Anybody have insights on this article? Does our ONTAP "Lost Write
> Protection" address this issue?
>
> Regards,
> Jenson
>
> A bit of a flaw with SATA disk drives
>
> June 03, 2008
> By Jerome Wendt
> Network World Asia
>
>
> High-capacity serial ATA (SATA) disk drives are now a
> mainstay in many storage systems and make it feasible for almost any
> company to obtain a storage system with terabytes of capacity at a
> reasonable cost. Yet these systems reveal a specific, known deficiency
> of SATA disk drives that demand companies exercise caution as to what
> environments they deploy these systems into.
>
> A minor flaw with SATA disk drives that high capacity
> storage systems expose is their bit error rate. Bit errors occur
> infrequently - about once for every 100 trillion bits. However RAID
> technology, which is normally used by storage systems to protect against
> data loss, does not detect if a specific bit on a SATA drive becomes
> unreadable.
>
> While this is normally not a problem on smaller systems,
> as storage systems add more capacity, the issue becomes more acute. On
> systems with more than 10TB of capacity the probability of a specific
> bit of data becoming unreadable is a distinct possibility. On systems
> with over 100TB, it becomes almost a certainty.
>
> So the question becomes: Does losing access to one bit
> of data really matter? Often, it doesn't unless one stores deduplicated
> data on these systems which is now the fastest growing trend in data
> storage. When data is deduplicated, the storage system's need to read
> every bit of data becomes paramount. The inability to access even a bit
> of data can result in multiple files becoming unreadable since they all
> may depend on a specific bit of data to complete their reconstruction.
>
> High capacity SATA-based storage systems are the answer
> to many companies' archiving and backup problems. But SATA bits can bite
> and using SATA drives to store large amounts of deduplicated data is not
> always the match made in heaven that vendors make them out to be.
>
> Jerome Wendt is the president and lead analyst at DCIG
> Inc. You may read his blogs at www.dciginc.com <http://www.dciginc.com/>
> .



--

David L. Lambert
  Software Developer,  Precision Motor Transport Group, LLC
  Work phone 517-349-3011 x215
  Cell phone 586-873-8813

Re: Flaw with SATA disks - not suitable for deduplication environment

by Jan Pieter Cornet :: Rate this Message:

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On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 06:54:15PM +0800, Chong, Jenson wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> Anybody have insights on this article? Does our ONTAP "Lost Write
> Protection" address this issue?

I don't have any particular insights, but I believe that you're
reasonably safe with RAID DP and block level checksums (or is that ECC?).

Netapp formats drives with 520 bytes per sector, for the specific reason
to add 8 extra bytes of checksum/ECC code per block. So ONtap knows
when a block is bad, single bit flips from faulty SATA drives can't
fool it. Also, the weekly scrub should highlight those faults, so they
don't pile up in unused corners of your filesystem.

RAID DP will make sure that during reconstruction of a single failed
drive, single bit errors on the other drives have a backup on the
second parity.

However, having said that... in the about 5 years that we deploy SATA
drives with netapp, we've had one case where data could possibly have
been lost (so we had to re-initialize the snapmirror. It was only
used as backup), and another where data was lost that was not
currently in use by the filesystem. This mainly happened when we
had simultaneous disk failures (3 or more drives in the same machine,
max 2 in the same raid group).

We've never seen 2 simultaneous drive failures (within the rebuild
time) with FC drives in the 10+ years we use those.

So, to recap: there is some truth in this article, but it's certainly
not as bad as it sounds, with ONtap. And even normal drives have CRCs
appended to sectors, so I cannot imagine bits just flipping without
the drivers giving a warning, even on other systems.

>  
> Regards,
> Jenson
>
> A bit of a flaw with SATA disk drives
>
> June 03, 2008
> By Jerome Wendt
> Network World Asia
>
>
> High-capacity serial ATA (SATA) disk drives are now a
> mainstay in many storage systems and make it feasible for almost any
> company to obtain a storage system with terabytes of capacity at a
> reasonable cost. Yet these systems reveal a specific, known deficiency
> of SATA disk drives that demand companies exercise caution as to what
> environments they deploy these systems into.
>
> A minor flaw with SATA disk drives that high capacity
> storage systems expose is their bit error rate. Bit errors occur
> infrequently - about once for every 100 trillion bits. However RAID
> technology, which is normally used by storage systems to protect against
> data loss, does not detect if a specific bit on a SATA drive becomes
> unreadable.
>
> While this is normally not a problem on smaller systems,
> as storage systems add more capacity, the issue becomes more acute. On
> systems with more than 10TB of capacity the probability of a specific
> bit of data becoming unreadable is a distinct possibility. On systems
> with over 100TB, it becomes almost a certainty.
>
> So the question becomes: Does losing access to one bit
> of data really matter? Often, it doesn't unless one stores deduplicated
> data on these systems which is now the fastest growing trend in data
> storage. When data is deduplicated, the storage system's need to read
> every bit of data becomes paramount. The inability to access even a bit
> of data can result in multiple files becoming unreadable since they all
> may depend on a specific bit of data to complete their reconstruction.
>
> High capacity SATA-based storage systems are the answer
> to many companies' archiving and backup problems. But SATA bits can bite
> and using SATA drives to store large amounts of deduplicated data is not
> always the match made in heaven that vendors make them out to be.
>
> Jerome Wendt is the president and lead analyst at DCIG
> Inc. You may read his blogs at www.dciginc.com <http://www.dciginc.com/>
> .
>
>  

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Re: Flaw with SATA disks - not suitable for deduplication environment

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On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 08:16:26AM -0400, David Lee Lambert wrote:
> I disagree with the statement that "RAID technology [...] does not detect if a
> specific bit on a SATA drive becomes unreadable."  If a bit is unreadable or
> reads back as the wrong value, RAID-5 (or NetApp's RAID-DP) can detect and
> fix the error when the data is read back.  

*bzzt* nope. RAID by itself does not "detect" bad data. It can correct
bad data when it's detected (by other means, usually the hardware
driver), but it doesn't detect it.

At least, that's not how it's implemented in all RAID systems that I'm
aware of. To _detect_ bad data with RAID, you'd have to read an entire
track, and verify that the checksum is correct. If it isn't, then AT
LEAST ONE of the sectors is in error, but it's impossible to determine
which one, without additional information.

RAID-DP might distill that info from the diagonal checksums (if it's a
single sector error), but you can hardly expect your super fast
networked storage hardware device to go and solve crossword puzzles for
you every time you request a block of data.

RAID works because drives don't just flip bits, they fail. Or the CRC
on the drive block fails. In any way, there's some indication that something
is amiss on a certain drive. RAID then offers the ability to replace the
failed data from the other drives, using the parity.

> (Note that if the data is never read back,  then it's immaterial whether it's
> correct.)
>
> Deduplication does not increase this risk.  In fact, deduplication means that
> the duplicated data is read back more often,  which should mean that any
> errors that occur would be detected sooner.
>
> On Thursday 05 June 2008 06:54:15 am Chong, Jenson wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Anybody have insights on this article? Does our ONTAP "Lost Write
> > Protection" address this issue?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Jenson
> >
> > A bit of a flaw with SATA disk drives
> >
> > June 03, 2008
> > By Jerome Wendt
> > Network World Asia
> >
> >
> > High-capacity serial ATA (SATA) disk drives are now a
> > mainstay in many storage systems and make it feasible for almost any
> > company to obtain a storage system with terabytes of capacity at a
> > reasonable cost. Yet these systems reveal a specific, known deficiency
> > of SATA disk drives that demand companies exercise caution as to what
> > environments they deploy these systems into.
> >
> > A minor flaw with SATA disk drives that high capacity
> > storage systems expose is their bit error rate. Bit errors occur
> > infrequently - about once for every 100 trillion bits. However RAID
> > technology, which is normally used by storage systems to protect against
> > data loss, does not detect if a specific bit on a SATA drive becomes
> > unreadable.
> >
> > While this is normally not a problem on smaller systems,
> > as storage systems add more capacity, the issue becomes more acute. On
> > systems with more than 10TB of capacity the probability of a specific
> > bit of data becoming unreadable is a distinct possibility. On systems
> > with over 100TB, it becomes almost a certainty.
> >
> > So the question becomes: Does losing access to one bit
> > of data really matter? Often, it doesn't unless one stores deduplicated
> > data on these systems which is now the fastest growing trend in data
> > storage. When data is deduplicated, the storage system's need to read
> > every bit of data becomes paramount. The inability to access even a bit
> > of data can result in multiple files becoming unreadable since they all
> > may depend on a specific bit of data to complete their reconstruction.
> >
> > High capacity SATA-based storage systems are the answer
> > to many companies' archiving and backup problems. But SATA bits can bite
> > and using SATA drives to store large amounts of deduplicated data is not
> > always the match made in heaven that vendors make them out to be.
> >
> > Jerome Wendt is the president and lead analyst at DCIG
> > Inc. You may read his blogs at www.dciginc.com <http://www.dciginc.com/>
> > .
>
>
>
> --
>
> David L. Lambert
>   Software Developer,  Precision Motor Transport Group, LLC
>   Work phone 517-349-3011 x215
>   Cell phone 586-873-8813
>

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by Freeman, Larry :: Rate this Message:

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Hi Toasters,
 
I found this post interesting so I polled some of our Engineering folks and this was the consensus opinion: 
 
This is not  really a problem for any modern storage system. It is true that errors can develop over time - or even during the manufacture of disk drives. Every drive has built-in error correction codes that detect, and usually correct such a bit error. If the string of errors is too great to be handled by the ECC codes, the drive will report back that the sector is unreadable, at which point RAID algorithms will "fix" the error from the information stored on other sectors . Our RAID-DP means two drives can even have the same data in error, and we can still recover.   Our SATA drives also use a checksum scheme for further protection - we utilize an additional  portion of the drive as overhead to store checksums that move with the data through the system to insure what was written is returned to the application. In essence a third level of protection.  This same type of protection against bits in error coverour FC drive systems.  Mr Wendt is correct in indicating that dedupe (aka block sharing) could exacerbate any data corruption event.  We take this seriously and believe that the extra steps NetApp has taken create one of the most reliable deduplication architectures in the industry.
 
Regards,
 
Larry Freeman
NetApp
 

From: "Karlsson Ulf Ibrahim :ULK" <ulk@...>
Date: June 5, 2008 4:42:22 AM PDT
Subject: SV: Flaw with SATA disks - not suitable for deduplication environment

NetApp's Raid-DP is the answer you're looking for.
 
/Ulwur
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Hi,
 
Anybody have insights on this article? Does our ONTAP "Lost Write Protection" address this issue?
 
Regards,
Jenson

A bit of a flaw with SATA disk drives

June 03, 2008
By Jerome Wendt
Network World Asia

High-capacity serial ATA (SATA) disk drives are now a mainstay in many storage systems and make it feasible for almost any company to obtain a storage system with terabytes of capacity at a reasonable cost. Yet these systems reveal a specific, known deficiency of SATA disk drives that demand companies exercise caution as to what environments they deploy these systems into.

A minor flaw with SATA disk drives that high capacity storage systems expose is their bit error rate. Bit errors occur infrequently - about once for every 100 trillion bits. However RAID technology, which is normally used by storage systems to protect against data loss, does not detect if a specific bit on a SATA drive becomes unreadable.

While this is normally not a problem on smaller systems, as storage systems add more capacity, the issue becomes more acute. On systems with more than 10TB of capacity the probability of a specific bit of data becoming unreadable is a distinct possibility. On systems with over 100TB, it becomes almost a certainty.

So the question becomes: Does losing access to one bit of data really matter? Often, it doesn't unless one stores deduplicated data on these systems which is now the fastest growing trend in data storage. When data is deduplicated, the storage system's need to read every bit of data becomes paramount. The inability to access even a bit of data can result in multiple files becoming unreadable since they all may depend on a specific bit of data to complete their reconstruction.

High capacity SATA-based storage systems are the answer to many companies' archiving and backup problems. But SATA bits can bite and using SATA drives to store large amounts of deduplicated data is not always the match made in heaven that vendors make them out to be.

Jerome Wendt is the president and lead analyst at DCIG Inc. You may read his blogs at www.dciginc.com.

 



RE: Flaw with SATA disks - not suitable for deduplication environment

by Coatney, Doug :: Rate this Message:

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Folks, the original article refers to "bit errors" on SATA disk
drives creating "problems".. The type of problem that this does
create is typically a Media error. Media errors are like death
and taxes, they're something that you know is inevitable, it's
only a question of when.

Five years ago, Netapp realized that arial density was on
the rise and that simply relying on disk access and weekly
RAID scrubs to find and fix media errors was insufficient.
We actually had a spike in double double disk failures
occurring due to media related failures. Ironically this was
happening on the Native FC disk subsystems due to media
substrate defects vs the SATA drive environments which were
just not on-scene yet..

With the 6.4.2 release of Data ONTAP, we created a new
background media scan feature. This process runs in the
background and insures that media errors are detected and
fixed by RAID prior to escallating to a situation where
double disk failures could occur.  

Over the releases that have followed, this core piece of
Data ONTAP has been modified and updated to keep pace with
larger capacity disk introductions. Background Media Scan
together with the advent of RAID DP and on disk checksums
effectively provides industry leading data integrity in
this area.

Hope this helps,

- Doug  

Doug Coatney
Senior Software Engineer
Storage Systems Team

NetApp
408.822.3708 Direct
408.822.4579 Fax
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jan-Pieter Cornet [mailto:johnpc@...]
>Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 5:59 AM
>To: David Lee Lambert
>Cc: toasters@...
>Subject: Re: Flaw with SATA disks - not suitable for
>deduplication environment
>
>On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 08:16:26AM -0400, David Lee Lambert wrote:
>> I disagree with the statement that "RAID technology [...] does not
>> detect if a specific bit on a SATA drive becomes unreadable."  If a
>> bit is unreadable or reads back as the wrong value, RAID-5 (or
>> NetApp's RAID-DP) can detect and fix the error when the data
>is read back.
>
>*bzzt* nope. RAID by itself does not "detect" bad data. It can
>correct bad data when it's detected (by other means, usually
>the hardware driver), but it doesn't detect it.
>
>At least, that's not how it's implemented in all RAID systems
>that I'm aware of. To _detect_ bad data with RAID, you'd have
>to read an entire track, and verify that the checksum is
>correct. If it isn't, then AT LEAST ONE of the sectors is in
>error, but it's impossible to determine which one, without
>additional information.
>
>RAID-DP might distill that info from the diagonal checksums
>(if it's a single sector error), but you can hardly expect
>your super fast networked storage hardware device to go and
>solve crossword puzzles for you every time you request a block of data.
>
>RAID works because drives don't just flip bits, they fail. Or
>the CRC on the drive block fails. In any way, there's some
>indication that something is amiss on a certain drive. RAID
>then offers the ability to replace the failed data from the
>other drives, using the parity.
>
>> (Note that if the data is never read back,  then it's immaterial
>> whether it's
>> correct.)
>>
>> Deduplication does not increase this risk.  In fact, deduplication
>> means that the duplicated data is read back more often,  
>which should
>> mean that any errors that occur would be detected sooner.
>>
>> On Thursday 05 June 2008 06:54:15 am Chong, Jenson wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Anybody have insights on this article? Does our ONTAP "Lost Write
>> > Protection" address this issue?
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Jenson
>> >
>> > A bit of a flaw with SATA disk drives
>> >
>> > June 03, 2008
>> > By Jerome Wendt
>> > Network World Asia
>> >
>> >
>> > High-capacity serial ATA (SATA) disk drives are
>now a mainstay in
>> > many storage systems and make it feasible for almost any
>company to
>> > obtain a storage system with terabytes of capacity at a reasonable
>> > cost. Yet these systems reveal a specific, known
>deficiency of SATA
>> > disk drives that demand companies exercise caution as to what
>> > environments they deploy these systems into.
>> >
>> > A minor flaw with SATA disk drives that high
>capacity storage
>> > systems expose is their bit error rate. Bit errors occur
>> > infrequently - about once for every 100 trillion bits.
>However RAID
>> > technology, which is normally used by storage systems to protect
>> > against data loss, does not detect if a specific bit on a
>SATA drive
>> > becomes unreadable.
>> >
>> > While this is normally not a problem on smaller
>systems, as
>> > storage systems add more capacity, the issue becomes more
>acute. On
>> > systems with more than 10TB of capacity the probability of a
>> > specific bit of data becoming unreadable is a distinct
>possibility.
>> > On systems with over 100TB, it becomes almost a certainty.
>> >
>> > So the question becomes: Does losing access to
>one bit of data
>> > really matter? Often, it doesn't unless one stores
>deduplicated data
>> > on these systems which is now the fastest growing trend in data
>> > storage. When data is deduplicated, the storage system's need to
>> > read every bit of data becomes paramount. The inability to access
>> > even a bit of data can result in multiple files becoming
>unreadable
>> > since they all may depend on a specific bit of data to
>complete their reconstruction.
>> >
>> > High capacity SATA-based storage systems are
>the answer to many
>> > companies' archiving and backup problems. But SATA bits
>can bite and
>> > using SATA drives to store large amounts of deduplicated
>data is not
>> > always the match made in heaven that vendors make them out to be.
>> >
>> > Jerome Wendt is the president and lead analyst
>at DCIG Inc. You
>> > may read his blogs at www.dciginc.com <http://www.dciginc.com/> .
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> David L. Lambert
>>   Software Developer,  Precision Motor Transport Group, LLC
>>   Work phone 517-349-3011 x215
>>   Cell phone 586-873-8813
>>
>
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>recipient. !!
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