One x 2.5″ device (laptop thickness) which is a drive carrier (not an actual drive).
This device needs to be able to carry 2 x 1.8″ 320gb SSD drives in RAID1 configuration.
When device is developed please send to Adaptec … I’ll evaluate it in my laptop for a very long time.
Obviously just gone through the pain […]

I’m noticing a slow but consistent change in people’s attitudes towards RAID types lately. It mostly has to do with the price and size of SATA disks. It seems that RAID5 is just not considered necessary, relevant or even suitable these days.
In days gone by RAID10 was always available, but considered way too expensive for […]

The wife hit the roof this morning. Literally. From July 1 the price I pay for electricity increased by 20% … ouch. This is a significant increase in the running cost of a home and a business. It’s a wake-up call for me to get serious about looking at exactly what uses electricity in both […]

Once upon a time I coined a phrase “SQL = SAS”. Our marketing department dismissed it as not having enough words in it to keep them all employed so it was relegated to a printout on my wall of ideas.
However … I think I may now have to agree with our marketing department (damn that […]

Blogs will be a bit thin on the ground for the next couple of weeks (more so than usual that is) as I wander off on a sojourn across Asia. Singapore, India, Thailand … sounds exotic (so the wife thinks), sounds expensive (so the boss thinks) … and sounds like hard work (that’s what I […]