For over thirty years, “RAID” configurations have been widely used throughout the IT-sphere to improve the reliability and performance of storage solutions. This technology’s lifespan demonstrates its usefulness, long before the advent and widespread use of solid-state drives, beginning with hard disk drives.
Topics: RAID, Computer Data Storage, SSD
Typically, compromise can be a great thing – certainly a mandate in most relationships; but not in the world of IT, and especially not in the storage space. In IT, compromise always comes at a cost.
Topics: RAID, caching, IO scheduling, over provisioning, short stroking, summary tables
