It appears that the Great Storage Blog Experiment has been a success. One way I know is by looking at the number of product-specific inquires we’re getting through the “Ask the Storage Advisors” link…

From my admittedly jaded point of view it feels like the storage industry has done plenty to promote SAS as the replacement for SCSI. I’ve certainly posted on the topic enough, and I’ve given several presentations and webinars touting the virtues of SAS. My guess is that all the enterprise folks that use SCSI or FC now certainly know about SAS.

But it feels like the channel doesn’t get it yet….

Question: Is there a rule of thumb concerning RAID-5 Block Stripe Size to file size? Is the any direct performance correlation between Block Strip Size and NTFS cluster size?…

Why should you separate RAID for the OS from RAID for your data?

I want to give a quick shout-out to my home-boy Jon Toigo for an excellent event over in Tampa this week. It was his first, and hopefully not his last, Disaster Recovery and Data Protection Summit…

Adaptec wins Oscar…