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Aug10th2007

RAID Risks. Actuary for data?

Good read on the numbers behind your storage risk planning. http://storageadvisors.adaptec.com/2007/07/10/effect-of-drive-count-on-raid-5/ Personally, when the data at stake is your clients and by inference your company’s reputation and business longevity, nothing short of a 1 in your RAID setup will do. So RAID1 or RAID10. Currently I split data for PostgreSQL on to RAID10 volumes for [...]

Aug9th2007

Splunk 3.0 is GA!

For those that care. IE: Hundreds of thousands of emails a day and you need to see what went wrong and where and for who and why? http://www.splunk.com/