學習存儲之道
NeilCameron
Google和youtube（Baidu和優酷——對應到中國）是獲取信息的有效渠道，但是，這些網上信息及博客中的信息準確度/質量/權威性的問題也一直存在。我並不是要給這些了不起的信息提供者抹黑，可從“馬嘴”（澳大利亞對“廠商”的俚稱）裏直接獲取資訊還是有其優勢吧？
這也切實可行。
在我們的主頁（www.adaptec.com）上，如果仔細閱讀，就能找到下述訊息：
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youtube的鏈接——產品營銷部門提供的有些老舊的產品信息，以及我們的Alabama Slammer（看了視頻，自然會明白）正在做的有關如何利用我們的卡的技術層面的若干訊息——Liz是迄今爲止行業內最棒的支持RAID的技術人員，因此很值得一聽。我對youtube的唯一問題是干擾。youtube頁面右邊列出的那些視頻看上去都比RAID要有意思得多。
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Facebook ——唔，我以爲這只是上傳菜餚圖片的地方…話說回來，我還挺喜歡它的（請原諒我的小玩笑），原因是我在上面找到了自己的一個視頻（這些東西最後會流落何方，無人能預料）。
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Adaptec大學——雖然是最後一個提及，但其重要性不容小覷。這裏有各種各樣有關RAID、存儲以及我們的產品與運用途徑等信息。我花了大量時間、精力寫下這些信息（並由專人負責編輯、理順）。雖然需要註冊才能訪問，但其實一切都是免費提供的。一旦進入了系統，其中包含的大量資料即可供您在閒暇時刻細細瀏覽。查閱下目錄，看看所含的內容，然後再到“my learning”瞧瞧自己已經完成了哪些部分，還有尚未閱讀完或根本還未觸及的內容等等。可以隨時隨意回來作個參考。
好了，現在您會不再使用Google（Baidu）嗎?肯定不會咯，因爲有大量有用的信息可以藉此訪問到（我自己也經常使用），但說道Adaptec的卡，您還是應該考慮從正確的人那裏獲取正確的信息——Adaptec by PMC。
Learning aboutstorage (the hard or easy way) …
Google and youtube arewonderful places to get information, but as always there is a question-markover the authenticity, quality and downright accuracy of the informationprovided by all and sundry in their posts and blogs. Now while I’m not castingaspersions over those that provide all this wonderful information, wouldn’t itbe nice to get something directly from the horses mouth? (Australian-speak for“Vendor”).
Well, you can.
On our website home page(www.adaptec.com) , if you look closely enough, you’ll find the following:
youtube link – some older stuff about our products from the product marketing and an ongoing effort by our Alabama Slammer (you’ll get it when you listen to the video) on technical aspects of how to do stuff with our cards – Liz is by far the best RAID Support Tech in the business so she’s well worth listening to. My only problem with youtube is getting distracted. All that lovely interesting stuff that appears down the right side always looks more interesting than RAID Facebook – hmmm, I thought this was only for putting pictures of your last meal … however I liked it (pardon the pun) because I found one of my videos on there (you never know where this stuff will end up). Adaptec University. Last, but certainly not least, this is a major source of all sorts of information on RAID and storage in general, and our products and how to use them in particular. I should know … I spend quite a bit of time writing this stuff (then having it cleaned up by a lovely lady whose English is a whole lot betterer than mine :-)).Yes, you have to register, but no we don’t ask for your first-born as a down-payment (in fact it’s free), but once you are in, there is a wealth of information to peruse through at your leisure. Look at the catelog to see what is available, then go to “my learning” to see what you have completed, not read or not even started yet, etc. You can come back to this as often (or as little) as you like.
So should you stop using Google? Heck no, there is tons of valuable stuff out there (I use it all thetime), but you should also consider getting the right word from the rightpeople – Adaptec by PMC.