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MAID
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ALSO CALLED: Array, Storage Arrays, Arrays, Massive Array of Idle Disks, and Disk Arrays
DEFINITION: MAID (massive array of idle disks) is a storage technology that employs a large group of disk drives in which only those drives in active use are spinning at any given time. This reduces power consumption and prolongs the lives of the drives. A MAID can have hundreds, or even thousands,
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Green and Environmental Friendly Storage: Practical Ways to Achieve Energy Efficiency
| sponsored by Storage Decisions
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This document targets on four areas like disk, network, backup & DR, and, storage management software.
Posted: 01 Oct 2008 | Published: 30 Sep 2008
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The New Storage: Flexible, Scalable, and Green
| sponsored by Dell | EMC
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Any organization with growing data storage -- and that's just about everybody now -- needs to do something, and what they did in the past won't work in the future. This paper gives a brief view into "new storage" -- flexible, scalable and green.
Posted: 19 Sep 2008 | Published: 19 Sep 2008
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How Government Agencies Can Use Software to Reduce Power Consumption
| sponsored by Carahsoft Technology Corp
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Learn how a growing number of government agencies can use data asset management software strategies to help better manage growth, and benefit from reduced hardware power consumption and cooling needs.
Posted: 03 Sep 2008 | Published: 19 Aug 2008
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MAID and De-duplication: The Best of Both Worlds
| sponsored by COPAN Systems
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The exponential growth of data and the corresponding challenges of data protection have made data de-duplication a viable option for dramatically reducing back-up storage needs while also providing data replication assistance for disaster recovery...
Posted: 30 Jul 2008 | Published: 01 Jul 2008
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Storage Economics: Getting the Biggest Bang for the IT Buck with MAID
| sponsored by COPAN Systems
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New storage demands require new approaches to old storage problems. In this whitepaper learn how organizations can have better results from a storage technology standpoint, and get the biggest bang for their IT buck.
Posted: 30 Jul 2008 | Published: 01 Nov 2007
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Paradigm Change in Storage Economics Meeting the Demands in Data Growth and Reduced Energy Costs
| sponsored by COPAN Systems
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With storage requirements growing unabated, organizations need to consider how to manage their data protection, disaster recovery and archive requirements. This whitepaper explains how COPAN's systems are well positioned to meet these needs.
Posted: 30 Jul 2008 | Published: 30 Jul 2008
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DISK AEROBICS® and MAID (Massive Array of Idle Disks): A Match Made in Heaven
| sponsored by COPAN Systems
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This paper discusses how the combination of DISK AEROBICS®
software and MAID (Massive Array of Idle Disks) delivers enterprise-class
data availability and integrity for persistent data in a low-cost storage
solution.
Posted: 18 Oct 2005 | Published: 01 Oct 2005
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MAID DEFINITION (continued): … of individual drives, and offers mass storage at a cost per terabyte roughly equivalent to that of tape. MAID technology is offered as an option to high-volume tape libraries. A MAID is usually constructed with low-cost Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) drives, which have shorter mean time between failures (MTBF) ratings than more expensive drives. In MAID technology, every drive is periodically tested. If a drive shows signs of failure, …
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