Category Archives: Storage

HBA Firmware and Drivers – The Storage Grey Area

Posted on 04/09/2019 by Erwin van Londen | Permalink 0

Whenever things goes haywire on an OS or application there are two areas that are looked at first: Networks Storage In a fair few cases the issue is [..]

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Performance misconceptions on storage networks

Posted on 14/08/2015 by Erwin van Londen | Permalink 2

The piece of spinning Fe3O4 (ie rust) is by far the slowest piece of equipment in the IO stack. Heck, they didn’t invent SSD and Flash for nothing, [..]

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Open Source Storage (part 2)

Posted on 11/03/2015 by Erwin van Londen | Permalink 0

Six years ago I wrote this article : Open Source Storage in which I described that storage will become “Software Defined”. Basically I already predicted SDN before the [..]

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Open Source Storage

Posted on 16/05/2009 by Erwin van Londen | Permalink 0

Storage vendors are getting nervous. The time has come that SMB/SME level storage systems can be build from scratch with just servers, JBOD’s and some sort of connectivity. [..]

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