Portakabin Modular Construction
I had a small discussion today with a few folks on Twitter that was a forerunner to a Wikibon “Peer Incite” discussion on whether RAID was still relevant or not (hence the title of this post). It seems to me that perhaps the Wikibon discussion was a good way to [...]
This is a series of posts on the Promise SmartStor NS4600 home storage server. Previous posts:
Hardware Review: Promise SmartStor NS4600 – Part I
In the first post of this series, we discussed the basic hardware configuration. This post will look at connectivity and RAID configurations supported by the NS4600.
A quick glance [...]
This is a series of posts on the Promise SmartStor NS4600 home storage server.
Background
Promise Technology Inc have been manufacturing RAID controllers since 1988 and iSCSI storage systems since 2004. In 2007, the company released the first of the SmartStor devices, the NS4300, a fully-functioned home NAS storage array. That was followed [...]
This is the time of year I like to do a little early spring cleaning and one group of storage devices due a clean out are my old hard drives.
Following on from my Personal Computing: Drobo Wierdness, I have received a replacement unit from Data Robotics. I thought for a change I’d produce a video and so here is my attempt to swap out my drives into the new unit. In the end I formatted the existing drives as four new NAS shares. [...]
As regular readers will know, I’ve had a Drobo storage system for some time now. I’ve not had a bad word to say about the product – it just works and does what I expect it to do. However, there’s one function I think could do with some improvement and it’s the one [...]
Happy New Year and welcome back to all my readers!
I’ve been messing about with some old hard drives this week and unusually for me, one is sounding decidedly sickly. I’ve never had a personal hard drive go on me (I guess I always upgrade/move on before it happens), but [...]
Thanks to all those who posted in response to Understanding EVA earlier this week, especially Cleanur who added a lot of detail. Based on the additional knowledge, I’d summarise again:
EVA disks are placed in groups – usually recommended to be one single group unless there’s a compelling reason not to [...]
The holidays are over and it’s back to work for me. In fact I returned yesterday; the break was good however it is also good to be back.
It seems that I’ve returned to a flurry of acquisitions. Yesterday there was the heavily reported (on the blogosphere) purchase of XiV by IBM. Tony [...]
Just read Robin Harris’ post at his new blog location; http://blogs.zdnet.com/storage/?p=116 and his comment on another blog discussing RAID. He quotes a VAR who has tracked disk failures and thinks RAID is an expensive luxury for desktops.
It’s interesting to see the failure rates quoted, anywhere from 1-3%, which on the face [...]
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