Well, it seems that the fibre channel array may be working fine after all. Kinda. I ran it through the works with ATTO Disk Benchmark and I started seeing performance numbers that made more sense. But there was one really wierd thing. The write speeds peaked off at about 20 MB/sec while the read went up to about 95 MB/sec. Need to figure this one out… Maybe that’s why the drive just felt slow. I think it could also somehow be a limitation (of a setting?) on the controller. I’d like to rebuild the array, but I just don’t have the time to do a reformat / reinstall right now. Oh well. I’d check other settings, but my copy of GAM for Windows got messed up. Some random service is missing…

I got to work about 30 minutes ago. It’s quiet here right now. Just the sounds of my keyboard (and someone else’s) clacking away. Lunch today should be nice. Brian and I are supposed to meet up with Al over at a local Indian place. This particular place has a nice lunch buffet for a reasonable price. Maybe they’ll even have the fried cheese balls in syrup. I still swear that those things are doughnuts and not cheese.

Coffee just isn’t waking me up this morning. Maybe coworkers will. If they get here before I pass out.

Yesterday I learned that we have a rather nice Cisco lab downstairs in this very building. A fully stocked CCNA, CCNP, and CCIE lab, along with a bunch of other random stuff. Not bad. I think I’m going to pick up my CCNA, simply because it looks fairly easy and there’s never anything wrong with having a second cert and learning a bit more.

I think I’ll go grab another cup of coffee and take a little walk around. There’s a bunch of stuff to be done around here today, so I need to get going on all of that.