… how bad would SATA have been without the benefit of RAID-6? …

SAS ready for the Enterprise? Just how Big? and what about HA?

I’m not going to go into the values of having applications and services available over the web – I think that’s a personal preference for each individual and company to have to decide.

Now that we know how to calculate the Mean Time To Data Loss (MTTDL) for RAID-5 and RAID-6 arrays, let’s take a look at some real life cases using actual SATA and SAS/SCSI arrays. …

It’s true I tell you – you can absolutely deploy SAS and SATA drives within the same physical enclosure… but be careful!

There are a number of ways that IT Pros deal with remote site data protection – some are good and some are not so good…

In an earlier post Joe mentioned that the reliability of SATA could be improved by using RAID-6. That’s very true, and there’s a good story to be told about the reliability of SATA with RAID-6 being much higher than the reliability of SCSI/SAS with RAID-5. So I thought I would start by reviewing how reliability is determined for both types of arrays. …

Finally these “third class citizens” (SATA drives) can get a little respect with a little help from RAID 6.

Byte and Switch poll: Is SAS a viable alternative to Fibre Channel as an enterprise-class drive?