EMC VNXe Array Series: The Beginning…
Hey, what’s that in the box right there? Well, the big box on the bottom is an EMC VNXe 3300 array. The boxes on top, unfortunately, weren’t mine. They contained some solid state drives and another...
View ArticleRAID: Part 1 – General Overview
For my first foray into the tech blogging world, I wanted to have a discussion on the simple yet incredibly complex subject of RAID. Part 1 will not be technical, and instead hopefully provide some...
View ArticleRAID: Part 2 – Mirroring and Striping
In this post I’m going to cover two of the three patterns of RAID, and cover RAID0, 1. Initially I was going to include RAID1/0 but this one got a bit too long, so I’ll break it out into its own post....
View ArticleRAID: Part 3 – RAID 1/0
So, if you have been following along dear reader, we are now up to speed on several things. We have discussed mirroring (and RAID1, which leverages it) and striping (and RAID0, which leverages that)....
View ArticleRAID: Part 5 – RAID5 and RAID6
Now that the parity post is out of the way, we can move into RAID5 and RAID6 configurations. The good news for anyone who actually plodded through the parity post is that we’ve essentially already...
View ArticleSAN vs NAS Part 2: Hardware, Protocols, and Platforms, Oh My!
Part 1: Intro Part 2: Hardware, Protocols, and Platforms, Oh My! Part 3: File Systems Part 4: The Layer Cake Part 5: Summary In this post we are going to explore some of the various options for SAN and...
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