Upgrade BIOS On Silicon Image Storage Controllers

For several years I used  OpenSolaris for my home storage platform, and in order to get the best performance from it, the best option was to put all storage controllers into JBOD mode.  (I no longer use OpenSolaris since Oracle killed it and the OpenIndiana platform had not released a stable version at the time […]

OpenSolaris Now OpenIndiana

For some, this is old news, but when Oracle bought Sun Microsystems the free operating system that Sun produced (OpenSolaris) was dropped.  Many people use this operating system as a free, effective replacement for an enterprise-class NAS/SAN appliance as it provided many of the amenities that most other NAS/SAN appliances offer such as: LUNs that can be […]