Posts Tagged ‘RAID’

Hardware Review: Promise SmartStor NS4600 – Part II

Hardware Review: Promise SmartStor NS4600 – Part II
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...
July 1st, 2010 | Featured, Reviews | Read More

Hardware Review: Promise SmartStor NS4600 – Part I

Hardware Review: Promise SmartStor NS4600 – Part I
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...
June 25th, 2010 | Featured, Reviews | Read More

Personal Computing: The End of The Parallel Interface

Personal Computing: The End of The Parallel Interface
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.  After many faithful years, I’m finally saying goodbye to all of my parallel ATA devices.  One the one hand, I hate throwing things out.  I like to use...
December 30th, 2009 | Featured, Personal Storage | Read More

Personal Computing: Drobo Replacement

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. ...
November 20th, 2009 | Personal Storage | Read More

Personal Computing: Drobo Jitters

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 thing...
September 14th, 2009 | Personal Storage | Read More

Enterprise Computing: RAID Is Not Enough

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 rest assured...
January 5th, 2009 | Uncategorized | Read More

Understanding EVA – revisited

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...
October 29th, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

Two for the price of one

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 Pearson...
January 3rd, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

Giving RAID the thumbs up

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,...
April 4th, 2007 | Uncategorized | Read More