There’s been a little hallway chatter regarding what this column’s about. I guess it started with the name, “Storage Interconnects & RAID”. Yaaawwnnn. Yes, it’s quite descriptive if you read each word. And I suppose if you were looking for the ESDI v1.1 spec from the late 1980’s you’d probably Google “storage interconnects”. Not. …

I recently read a good column from Arun Taneja at SearchStorage.com that explored the benefits of using SATA drives as primary storage in the data center. He mostly discussed buying criteria for selecting the right SATA products, but he also touched on how SATA could be used in a SAS environment. …

After all these years of hearing that it was just shagged out following a prolonged squawk, I think RAID-5’s time has finally come. Yep, it’s dead. It’s a stiff … bereft of life … off the twig … kicked the bucket … joined the bleedin’ choir invisible. IT’S AN EX-RAID LEVEL!!! …

And in true Slashdot style let’s just stop right there, allowing me to bask in the glory of being the content-free frist psot. Nothing to see here; move along, move along…