If there was ever a post true to the part of the tagline of my blog that mentions random thoughts, this is it. :-)
This post is a compilation of my tweets from today, which cover several different topics related to Storage.

• Microsoft Research: Dryad Project: Writing parallel and distributed programs to scale from a small cluster to a large data-center http://bit.ly/cbFrJw
• Microsoft Research: SCOPE: Easy and Efficient Parallel Processing of Massive Data Sets http://bit.ly/16tivz
• Windows Azure Storage presentation (video recording) by Brad Calder delivered during the MIX conference. http://bit.ly/JPJM3
• Understanding Block Blobs and Page Blobs - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee691964.aspx
• Beta Release of Windows Azure Drive (announced as XDrive at PDC 2009) - http://bit.ly/b1kUy0
• Windows Azure drive acts as a local NTFS volume that is mounted and cached on the local file system - http://bit.ly/aKWsix
• Exchange Server Protocol Documents - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc425499(EXCHG.80).aspx
• Exchange Server 2010 Database and Log I/O Performance Factors - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee832791.aspx
• Uncovering Exchange 2010 Database Availability Groups (DAGs) - Three-part article - http://bit.ly/7K6IlH
• SMART dealing with HDD unreliability (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T.
• Migrating server storage to SSDs: analysis of tradeoffs - http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Paper/5872181.aspx
• Adaptec MaxIQ - SSD Cache Performance Solution with hybrid arrays - http://bit.ly/dd4iJY
• The following lists identify, characterize and link to more thorough information on computer file systems - http://bit.ly/auaM6y
• In computer systems, a snapshot is a copy of the state of a system at a particular point in the past. http://bit.ly/bSVuEr)
• How NTFS works - Details on NTFS Architecture http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc781134(WS.10).aspx
• Basic Disks vs. Dynamic Disks - MBR vs. GPT - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa363785(VS.85).aspx
• File Systems in Windows: FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS - http://bit.ly/dvSvS6 (old article, but still nice to understand NTFS basics)
• Checklist: Create a Clustered File Server in Windows Server 2008 R2 - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753969.aspx
• Failover Cluster Step-by-Step Guide: Configuring a Two-Node File Server Failover Cluster - http://bit.ly/bFNSMO
• 1998: SQL Server 7.0 releases, supporting 1TB of storage. Terraserver was the poster-child DB back then http://bit.ly/apigSi
• Details on how SQL Server stores the actual data (pages) in its files - http://bit.ly/9amObf
• Column stores: databases that store content by column rather than by row. http://bit.ly/2nh4TC
• SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse (aka "Madison"): DW performance at low cost via MPP http://bit.ly/1aWTox
• Fusion-io and SQL Server 2008 - http://bit.ly/8ZhF1V
• Deploying SQL Server 2008 with PS6000S array with SSD - http://bit.ly/aozwOV
• A Case for Flash Memory SSD in Enterprise Database Applications - http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1376616.1376723
• Unbundling Transaction Services in the Cloud - http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=81294
• H-Store: A Next Generation OLTP DBMS - http://db.cs.yale.edu/hstore/
• Microsoft Sync Framework enables collaboration and offline access for applications, services and devices. http://bit.ly/cFP4s8
• SQL Azure - A SQL relational database in the cloud, which you use just like an on-premise SQL Server. http://bit.ly/COx8T
• SQL Azure offers - prices and sizes (up to 10GB per DB you can have multiple DBs) - http://bit.ly/cWLpvb
• SQL Azure Database became generally available this month: http://bit.ly/bxXZmc - SLAs in effect: http://bit.ly/bFFFfp

If you have some free time to read white papers or review presentations (new and old) on Storage, have fun with them...