I had an interesting discussion with a blog reader and customer via icq (oh wonderful new world of business). It started with a question about the J4500 and it ended in the the discussion, if MAID is really a viable way for storing data of if it´s just one of this hypes working their way through the storage business every year.
MAID? What is MAID? MAIDs are Massive Arrays of Idle Disk. The idea is to save power by switching of disks in the case they aren´t in use. You can buy such components from companies like Copan.
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Tue, 02.12.2008 15:18
Na ja, ganz so drastisch würde ich das nicht formulieren, NA T hat auch seine guten Seiten. Mir fallen nur gerade k [...]
Tue, 02.12.2008 09:40
Hehe, funny link. My blog is a n ESTP, so it almost matches m y personal ENFP type. I really would like to know how [...]
Tue, 02.12.2008 07:41
It uses OpenSource components ... Fishworks isn´t the Filer product. Fishworks is a softwa re to build appliances. [...]
Tue, 02.12.2008 07:36
Ich werde da auf jeden Fall no ch mal weiter genau weiterlese n. Achja und AAJ42 ist in der tat hochinteressant ....
Tue, 02.12.2008 07:32
Hm. Bummer! I was very interes ted in the DTrace monitoring t hing, but I'm working on it by myself.