Study Notes

When I check the information about disks via BX1200 Web GUI, I find that all SATA disks’ vendor is marked as “ATA”, while SAS disks’ vendor is “Seagate”(We use Seagate disks on that BX1200 platform). It is considered to be accepted in current version.

SSP: Serial SCSI Protocol
STP: Serial ATA Tunnel Protocol

Some famous storage vendors and its NAS products:
EMC: Celerra NS series
IBM: NAS Gateway 500
Sun: Storage Tek 5320
Bakbone: Netvault(it is also used in Plasmon’s SNAZ) for backup and recovery.
ADIC: Tape devices, an American company
FalconStor: Tape devices, and corporate with EMC

MWC: Mirror Write Consistency, when transfer data to remote host, and at the same time it also need to be written to local disk. This locate writing operation only be done after get the confirmation from remote host.