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”. […]