I have been seeing a lot of people using 1.5Tb and greater hard drives lately, and find myself getting pretty uncomfortable about them using plain old RAID5 for 12-16 1.5Tb drives.
With the failure rate of SATA drives not being something to smile about, and the length of time required to rebuild arrays of this size, […]

I was madly making RAID arrays the other day to do some testing, when a message popped up on the screen … “The selected configuration allows for the creation of a logical device with Enclosure Level Redundancy. This will override any second-level devices selection that you have made. Do you want to configure Enclosure Level […]

All the hype in Australia at the moment is the National Broadband Network … basically fibre to the node everywhere (fibre to all homes and businesses). Now no-one believes it’s going to happen in the next 6 months but the current government has a firm commitment to get this going.
So what implications will that have […]

I’ve been getting a lot of requests lately from people putting together massive storage “buckets” … 16 or more 1.5 or 2tb drives in a single array to provide a large storage container for whatever their data is (they don’t normally tell me that). However, they all so … “performance is not an issue”. […]