I recently “upgraded” my aging storage environment in my home lab with an all-flash Asustor Flashstor 12 Pro with 12 x 2TB NVMe M.2 Drives, with upgraded RAM to 16 GB, running TrueNAS Scale v22.12.3.3. Just an FYI, everything is connected at 10Gb, unless otherwise noted. Here’s a few of my thoughts so far:
Category: Storage
SAS vs. SATA Differences, Technology and Cost
Here are the high-level differences between SAS and SATA disk drives which I thought it’d be a perfect post for the blog as it contains some useful information that some might not be aware of. Capacity: SATA (or now called NL-SAS for Nearline SAS) disk drives are the largest on the market. The largest SATA/NL-SAS […]
How To Collect Data From a Fibre Channel (FC) Switch
Sometimes you will be asked by either the manufacturers support or perhaps by Lewan for data from your Fibre Channel switch. Here is how you can gather that information in a format that helps support and/or Lewan: Brocade – How-To Collect a “supportshow” from a Brocade Switch from a Windows Host with HyperTerminal Follow these […]
Forget Dropbox – Use Zumodrive for Online Storage!
I posted awhile back about DropBox which allows you to store things online while having a local “drive” on your computer to use. Here’s a link to that post: http://djlaube.wordpress.com/2009/02/18/dropbox-online-sync-backup-for-multiple-computers/ Well, forget Dropbox! Nothing against them as it worked well, however I now use www.zumodrive.com! It basically has all the features of Dropbox (creates a […]
Celerra Virtual Storage Appliance (VSA) for VMware
I have used the Lefthand Networks Virtual Storage Appliance (VSA) in the past (which can be found here: http://www.lefthandnetworks.com/vsa.aspx) which presents an iSCSI target off of local disk through an appliance inside a VM. It’s a great way to use internal storage and make it “look” and act like a SAN. I ran across this […]