I was working the stand on a tradeshow recently when a very nice gentleman stopped by to ask me some performance questions about our RAID cards. This is not an unusual scenario, but this customer’s system was pretty unique and it made me think quite a bit about what different poeple are looking for from […]

This should have nothing to do with RAID. I should not even ever have to comment on such an issue. You’d think in this day and age with all our fancy technology we’d have this right by now … NOT A CHANCE FOLKS!
Chatting with the tech support folks over a few ales is like watching […]

I recently read a draft document aimed at outlining RAID maintenance “best practices”. This has been developed to counter some of the insane practices of our customers such as recycling used drives in RAID configs because the drive “seems OK”.
While the document jumps pretty much straight into proprietary and unique Adaptec features, it made me […]