Now that flash storage is becoming more popular, IO alignment question keeps popping up more often than it used to when all we had were rotating hard disk drives. I think the reason is very simple – when systems only had one bearing hard disk drive (HDD) as in RAID1 or one disk drive at [...] [...more]
In the first part of this article I have showed how I align IO, now I want to share results of the benchmark that I have been running to see how much benefit can we get from a proper IO alignment on a 4-disk RAID1+0 with 64k stripe element. I haven’t been running any benchmarks [...] [...more]
ATTO Technology 6Gb/s SAS/SATA And RAID Host Bus Adapters Interoperable With Toshiba Hard Disk Drives ATTO Technology, Inc., a global leader of storage connectivity and infrastructure solutions for data-intensive computing environments, announced recently that its first-to-market 6Gb/s SAS/SATA Host Bus Adapters and 6Gb/s SAS/SATA RAID Host Bus Adapters have met compatibility requirements with Toshiba’s enterprise-class [...] [...more]
Making Apps Safe is Hard Work And chances are good that no app store is doing all that its users would like to ensure that apps will do no harm. Read more on CIO [...more]
Linux.com Short Training Video, Learn how to Install Linux/Unix OS onto your PC using this short video clip (the same steps apply for all other version eg Fedora and Linspire etc). Part 2 Training video by Robin Miller [...more]
