Let me start by admitting that I'm not at all well versed with SAN topics, but know the basics. I was looking at a HP P2000 G3 SAS DAS for a two host Hyper-V cluster. The thinking was that we'd forgo ...

We're looking at purchasing a Dell MD1000 direct attached storage unit for a vSphere host at a branch office. The MD1000 will be carved up into different volumes with different RAID levels depending ...

As the turn of the last millennium approached, it was clear that parallel SCSI had run its course as the interconnect of choice in network server storage. Ultra320 SCSI was the last generation of ...

Today, it's still the only one, and the CRN Test Center has had an opportunity to test one in its labs. The first thing that surprised us about the SAS6160 was its small size. For a SAS expander ...

Storage area networks (SANs) and network-attached storage (NAS) owe their popularity to some compelling advantages in scalability, utilization and data management. But achieving high performance for ...

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