xByte Blog

For many in the tech industry, RAID 5 has always been the recommended RAID level when creating new arrays.  When I was first deploying a new iSCSI SAN for xByte, I found strong recommendations … read more

Technology within the world of enterprise class storage is evolving at a higher rate of speed than ever before.  Three different standards have emerged within the industry.  Each having i … read more

If you haven’t already implemented a hyperconverged infrastructure, you are at least thinking about trying it out. After making the switch, you will have an existing infrastructure that probably co … read more

I am sure there are occasions where drive performance doesn’t really matter and you can’t justify spending even a little more to get faster performance.  But why limit yourself?  Prices f … read more

The Dell PowerEdge FX enclosure might, at first, be a bit of a mystery. For all intents and purposes, this is a 2U rack mount blade chassis and, in many ways, it is the baby sibling of the 5U VRTX … read more