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Enterprise Grade Fibre Chanel SAN in 5 Minutes?
I am not kidding. We were getting queries about the performance of our latest DSS V6 build 4786. So I needed to quickly set up a performance benchmark. It took ...
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A few words about hardware compression in a backup with tape drives.
Most present tape drives include a function called hardware compression. This makes available data compression to the magnetic tape by a drive. In many cases this feature may prove very ...
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Is it possible to configure 10Gb switchless High Available Cluster?
Business continuity is becoming a more and more important feature. A significant portion of the purchases of our Data Storage Software are in pairs. Customers are using pairs of 2 ...
Read More Multipath – which path should we choose?
Fortunately in Linux in contrast to our lives we don’t need to choose one path, we are able to choose all paths! In this article, you can find simple description ...
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How does RAID 5 work? The Shortest and Easiest explanation ever!
We all have limited time to study long and complicated information about RAID theories, but you may be interested as to how RAID 5 works. We made it simple for ...
Read More Formatted capacity confusion clarified
From time to time some meticulous customer will ask us how come a fresh formatted hard disk or RAID array volume is smaller than the nominal capacity. For example when ...
Read More Bonding versus MPIO explained
There is plenty of talk about Bonding and Multipath IO, but it is very difficult to get solid information about either one. Typically what documentation can be found is very ...
Read More Why a HOT-SPARE Hard Disk is a bad idea
People are a bit surprised every time they hear this question from us. Conventional wisdom about Hot-Spares teaches us that it is a very nice idea: minimizing degraded array state, ...
Read More Open-E Overview
Open-E, Inc. is a pioneering leader and developer of IP-based storage management software with headquarters in the United States and Europe. Founded in 1998, the company sells its line of ...
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