by wwarren | Jun 27, 2010 | Hardware, Linux, Open Source, Storage, Vendors, Windows
PERC S300 – can it be made to work?. I saw this on the Dell Linux mailing list. I did a bit of research and found this is a windows only FAKERAID product. What I mean by FAKERAID is the card fakes like it is a raid card but all of the work is done on the cpu....
by wwarren | May 30, 2010 | Hardware, Storage
SSD’s are so fast that if you use more than one SSD(which you have to for ANY RAID) you may just hit a wall due to the RAID controllers not being fast enough to keep up. What’s interesting is at one point they went to purely software RAID and saw the kind...
by wwarren | May 30, 2010 | Hardware, Storage
The SSD Anthology: Understanding SSDs and New Drives from OCZ – AnandTech :: Your Source for Hardware Analysis and News. I don’t know why I didn’t blog this last year. It’s becoming more and more relevant though as folks start diving into...
by wwarren | Jan 7, 2010 | Hardware, Open Source, Storage
ZFS – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. I am going to look into this more. This feature alone would allow storage admins to better utilize storage space. Right now it’s only available on FreeBSD 8.0 and Solaris. I may have to fire up a BSD VM on a...
by wwarren | Dec 23, 2009 | Hardware, Storage
AMD Does RAID On a Chip – www.enterprisestorageforum.com. This thing is FRAID or software raid. It’s no better than ICHx or any other chipset based “raid” system. When you see somehting like this: Dot Hill’s RAIDCore technology enables...
by wwarren | Dec 1, 2009 | Microsoft, Storage, Windows
Channelweb Connect: SMB Channel Voice: SMB Storage Challenges – Two Nice MS Utilities. The Search Server Express is one thing i like. It allows you to have your server index by content everything on your server including PDF’s. This is one i am going to look...
