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Urgent product development required …

Monday, August 31st, 2009
Posted in General, Storage Applications, Platforms, Storage Interconnects & RAID, Storage Management, Application Environments, Advisor - Neil

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 […]

Has RAID5 had it’s day?

Monday, August 31st, 2009
Posted in General, Storage Applications, Platforms, Storage Interconnects & RAID, Storage Management, Application Environments, Advisor - Neil

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 […]