http://storageadvisors.adaptec.com Storage Solutions for Real World IT Professionals Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:17:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://storageadvisors.adaptec.com/2009/10/29/the-conundrum-of-large-hard-drives/ 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 ... http://storageadvisors.adaptec.com/2009/10/21/stumbling-around-adaptec-in-the-bios-that-is/ 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 ... http://storageadvisors.adaptec.com/2009/10/21/thinking-broadband/ 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 … ... http://storageadvisors.adaptec.com/2009/10/21/problems-with-large-storage-systems-%e2%80%a6/ I’m sitting here in Hong Kong airport with less than half an hour to knock over some emails and wake this blog up again (or myself, whichever comes first). Why only half and hour? Is the flight home leaving soon? No. As a matter of fact I have another three ... http://storageadvisors.adaptec.com/2009/09/27/relativity/