02.17.07
Managing XAAS systems- Disk Failure
If you have a XAAS datacenter (or any other type!), then this post by Werner Vogels is probably of interest….good data on the failure experience with hard drives. He also points to his S3 storage service…I am starting to hear some feedback from entrepreneurs that suggests that the service has a lot of merit.
Pretty important topic, as the last thing you want to be telling your customers is “sorry, a hard disk failure caused a loss of your data.” The second worst thing is “sorry the system is down do to a hard disk failure, but we hope to have some of your data restored in a few days.”
Clearly not as sexy an issue as UIs and feature/function, but equally (more?) important!
Ben Tanen said,
February 17, 2007 at 11:08 pm
Scott, S3 is relevant on the personal side too. Check out JungleDisk; it’s not perfect yet but the beta has some nice features for turning mounting your S3 bucket locally over the net.
-Ben
scottmaxwell said,
February 18, 2007 at 7:51 am
Ben, good point…and thanks for sending over the pointer to Jungle Disk! it looks really interesting and I am going to give it a go…
S