Recent content by craigyk

You are right, as a scientist I am familiar with the distinction. Unfortunately I also know that waiting for something to be 'proved' is often anathema to making decisions in the near term. I didn't see much point in foregoing big cost savings just to accept possibly outdated 'conventional...

I bought a 70 drive HP MDS600 a while ago and have been keeping tabs on the whole SATA over SAS stuff, just because I could get so much more capacity for the $$ using SATA drives in this thing. A couple of weeks ago I borrowed ~40 drives from a friend's previous storage upgrades. This stuff...