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Can SATA breach the chasm?

Friday, December 16th, 2005
Posted in Storage Interconnects & RAID, Advisor - Tom Treadway

Question: Do you think the stability and reliability of SATA drives will improve? We have not had a lot of luck with them in production and the overall opinion is that ATA is a desktop technology vs SCSI which is designed for the server end.

FATA drives

Tuesday, December 6th, 2005
Posted in Storage Interconnects & RAID, Advisor - Tom Treadway

Question: Where do FATA drives fit in?

SAS fanout expanders

Tuesday, December 6th, 2005
Posted in Storage Interconnects & RAID, Advisor - Tom Treadway

Question: Is there a physical difference in edge and fanout expanders, or is it just a matter of where they exist in the SAS domain? In other words, if you surround an expander with edge expanders is that central expander considered a fanout?

SAS initiator and target mix

Tuesday, December 6th, 2005
Posted in Storage Interconnects & RAID, Advisor - Tom Treadway

Question: Are there any constraints on the numbers of SAS initiators and targets you can mix & match?

InfiniBand, and other low-carb recipes for the holidays

Saturday, December 3rd, 2005
Posted in Storage Interconnects & RAID, Advisor - Tom Treadway

Question: Is InfiniBand pronounced with a long “e” as in “IN fin e BAND”?

The origin of RAID-6

Friday, December 2nd, 2005
Posted in Storage Interconnects & RAID, Advisor - Tom Treadway

Question: I haven’t been able to figure out who developed RAID 6 and how long it’s been around. Any ideas?