We often have very good comments on posts go unnoticed. So I’m making this post to point out a good comment from Allen regarding dual-ported SAS.

Question: Is a StorageTek Iceberg 9200 worth anything or is it outdated?

The folks over at Tom’s Hardware (no relationship) have recently posted an article on SAS…

Question: I just “suffered” through another webinar touting the virtues of SATA without really going into the MTBF or MTBDL (data loss)…

A few weeks ago I spoke at a TechData Government Conference here in Orlando. The title of my talk was “Serial Attached SCSI: Get Started Today”. I had a pretty good crowd of ~25 people…

MAID stands for Massive Arrays of Idle Disks. It was first mentioned in the January 2002 whitepaper of the same name, created by Colarelli, Grunwald and Neufeld from the University of Colorado in Boulder…