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Nick Holland
Personal blog · nickh.org/warstorieshardwaresystems
Nick Holland's personal blog at nickh.org covers hardware and systems. Since 2025, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Adaptec RAID cards are junk (2021)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in an HN thread titled 'Why use OpenBSD?'. The one comment is about hardware RAID history (Dell PERC, Adaptec, LSI, ZFS) and does not discuss the linked writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Adaptec RAID cards are junk (2021)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-11-16
What Hacker News says?
To be fair, there was not much Dell could do as their PERC cards were all rebranded Adaptec and later LSI. Adaptec was the gold standard for ages, but I assume was enshitified somewhere along the way. The long term result was that the entire hardware raid world ditched Adaptec for LSI and/or software RAID (eg ZFS). Dell (in those days, not sure if it's still the case) had excellent support. There was a bug on anothe…
Comment linking /warstories/adaptec.html
on “Why use OpenBSD?”Submitted Adaptec RAID cards are junk (2021) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted How NOT to do serial interfacing as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Eats Disks (2000) as a story · 1 points
HN discussion