Articles by Xaotic

About Xaotic
My name is Jim Owen. I have worked in various areas of hardware development and am currently a datacenter engineer and network administrator for a multinational corporation. I have a wife and three kids that occupy most of my time not consumed by work. I still chase performance, though most is in storage and virtualization for work.
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Supermicro SC846A-R1200B Review

February 2, 2011 Xaotic 7

Sometimes too much is never enough. This is often true when it comes to storage. Rackmount cases that allow for the use of high speed internal arrays (rather than external arrays requiring a bridge) are becoming more common. This is a good example of a mid level solution using the design criteria that are present in enterprise level server solutions. Read More