Did You Know/Todays Term

Did You Know?

It took Apollo astronauts approximately three days to get to the Moon, but the New Horizons probe reached (and passed) the Moon in a speedy 8.5 hours—it helped, of course, that the probe was bound for Pluto and didn’t need to enter lunar orbit, let alone land.

Today's Tech Term 

MAID

MAID (short for Massive Array Of Idle Disks) refers to a technology that makes use of a large group of disk drives (sometimes hundreds or even thousands) where only the drives being actively used are spinning at any given time.

MAID setups help reduce wear on the disk drives, power consumption, and the amount of heat generated.