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Is there a RAID controller in the house?

Monday, March 23rd, 2009
Posted in General, Storage Applications, Platforms, Storage Interconnects & RAID, Storage Management, Application Environments, Advisor - Neil

Expensive RAID controllers used to be the domain of business. You just didn’t find powerful, expensive controllers and lots of noisy, hot, large disks in home machines.
However things seem to be changing. People are putting high-end RAID controllers into home machines, combining them with SSDs to produce massively fast machines which do not run incredibly […]

Thinking about SSDs …

Monday, March 9th, 2009
Posted in General, Storage Applications, Platforms, Storage Interconnects & RAID, Storage Management, Application Environments, Advisor - Neil

Which of course means I don’t have a life, but …
I once wrote an article called “using high-port-count controllers”. About the only thing I was unsure about was where to put the hyphens. It was all about mixing SAS and SATA hard drives on high-port count controllers. The usual semi-sales pitch for our 52445 product […]