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There are acronyms for everything now days. It can be even more confusing and complex in the technology industry, especially when it comes to enterprise hardware. Hard drives alone have dozens o … read more

When it comes to Solid State Drives (SSDs), what does Read Intensive (RI), Mixed Use (MU), and Write Intensive (WI) really mean? Are RI SSDs the best and only option for read applications? If you’r … read more

Often there is performance tradeoff between large slower drives and smaller faster drives.  SAS 15K drives provide phenomenal performance but their limited size can result in lack of usable di … read more

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

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