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Jun
21
2012

Unusual request…

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Last week I was visiting a customer in Sweden for product training. One of the main reasons they required an on-site training was for a very unusual request: The goal was a system with two RAID arrays configured as NAS volumes. Once one of volumes is full of data, it must be removed from the system then replaced with the new fresh and empty array. The full one must be shipped to another location where [...]

May
30
2012

Short Story about IO-Errors

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Hardware failure is not an exception, it is a normal process. I guess most of you would agree with this statement. The real case we have experienced a few weeks ago is worth to describe in our blog in order to remind you about the norm or normal process. The norm is obvious if we consider a hard disk failure. Hard disks are usually the number one case of failure events. This is the reason [...]