RAID Array Management Interfaces
February 28th, 2006
There is a huge problem with every RAID array management interface I have ever used, they don’t provide many hints as to what’s actually going on. For example, today I was trying to mirror an existing drive on an IBM server we have here. When I went into the management interface, it would have let me create an array (with the existing hard drive) however nowhere was there any help text or hints about whether or not that would blow away the data on the drive. I believe the work it used was “create” and there was in the same menu an “init” option. Whoever designs these interfaces needs to learn that intuitive design isn’t only good for non-technical users.
Good UI helps everyone.