Adaptec released a new product today/yesterday (depending where live and how late it is) … and of course I’m not going to sit here and blatantly advertise it … that would not be bloggish of me. You can find it all over the web (once you work out how to set Google to find only […]

Technologically speaking that is (though it’s a scary thing to say in this day and age). It’s pretty bizarre when I find a “blog” is now an outdated form of communication.
If you go to the Adaptec home page, down on the bottom right hand side is the “Follow Us” tab. Inside you’ll find Facebook, Twitter […]

Off tomorrow to do another trade show … the usual tyre-kickers intermingled with a very intelligent crowd of business people interested in finding out where the future of storage lies.
Trouble is, of course, it depends on what magazine you read, or analyst you listen to, as to what the future holds.
Personally speaking, I’m finding a […]

In a spin about not spinning …
I hope people appreciate how long it takes me to come up with these snappy headlines.
Just spent a few days at Computex in Taiwan … wading through a mountain of new equipment, motherboards, memory modules and especially, importantly and all-pervasively … Solid State Drives (SSDs).
They were everywhere. It seems […]

I was just in the middle of writing an article on “clouds” when my article disappeared into one (and of course I’m such an expert on this software that I have no idea how to retrieve it). Therefore I’ll just start again in slightly less cheery state of mind …
Reading my local computer rag “Computerworld” […]

Kash posted the following as a reply to a Tom Treadway post. Since out of respect I won’t continue Tom’s posts I’ve made a new post in regard to this …
I took 7 SATA 300 drives of varying sizes (2 x 640GB, 4 x 500GB, 1 x 1TB) from different manufactures (WD 640, Samsung 640, […]

It is with much sadness that I note today the passing of Tom Treadway. Tom was one of the founding fathers of this blog, and a giant amongst his peers in the RAID and storage industry.
Tom was one of the two founders of DPT and a director and principal engineer at Adaptec for many years.
Many […]

While it’s good to have good backups, most system admins would like to know just exactly what the consequences of component failure mean for their uptime/downtime/workload scenario. In other words, how big a job will it be to get the server back on line if something falls over.
So let’s look at how the storage subsystem […]

There seem to be two types of speed-freaks in the storage world … streaming (video) and database afficionados. I thought I’d point out a few issues that the database lads should think about when setting up their systems.
There are a couple of issues where database differs from streaming … firstly in drive type. If you […]

(I’ve been away from the keyboard for a while, and needed to get the fingers working again, so I’ve stayed away from anything new we are doing so as not to upset the marketing lads any more than usual and have gone for something simple to get the hang of this again )
There are […]