Determining the number of drives in a RAID group Aug 8, 2009
Can you have too many drives in a RAID group, or even in the actual storage RAID array. We'll now cover these parameters for the RAID array and underlying disk technology ... DAS (direct attached storage) is what your environment typically contains if you don't have a SAN, and can refer to internal drives in your server or a SCSI RAID array attached to one or two servers. (Search Storage)
Tutorial on solid-state disk (SSD) devices Aug 8, 2009
StorageSpire is designed as a direct replacement for a RAID array for applications like transaction processing. Traditionally, the main use of SSD in IT has been as very high-speed caches to handle hot spots, such as indexes in databases. (Search Storage)
A quick and dirty way to increase a RAID 5 array Jul 16, 2009
Advice: Optimize copying from a SAN to a regular RAID array. Advice: RAID-5 -- More reliable. (Search Storage)
RAID 6 vs. RAID 10 Jul 10, 2009
Which RAID array you choose often depends on what kind of storage you're protecting. RAID 6 is mostly found in installations using SATA drives, especially large-capacity SATA drives in their arrays. (Search Storage)
Best practices for using server virtualization in your storage environment Jun 19, 2009
Anything that degrades I/O, such as a failed disk in a RAID array, will have a major impact on the performance of your virtualized system. If you're having performance issues, one of the first things you should check is I/O. For example, RAID arrays should continue to work even with a bad disk, but they will slow down considerably and likely affect your virtual machines as well. (Search Storage)
Dot Hill Reports First Quarter 2009 Results: May 8, 2009
"Our engineering and operations team achieved product cost reductions that were two to three times higher than historical norms. We won our first piece of business for RAIDCore with a Tier-1 server OEM and we were also first to market to launch and ship products based on a 2U, 24-drive RAID array that supports 2.5 inch hard disk drives and solid state disks.". The company also stated that it is still finalizing its first quarter 2009 financial results and is currently evaluating levels of raw... (PR Newswire)
