Today I will discuss briefly what I learned during my first few days of my internship. I will try to keep things vague so as not to discuss company trade secrets. If I am wrong in anything, please correct me so I can learn the right things.

I learned about controllers, storage boxes and servers. I've learned about initiators and target devices as well as the SAS protocol. I learned the history of protocol advancements. Parallel ATA was the first, then came SATA, then SCSI, then finally SAS. I learned about firmware and drivers. I learned about backplanes, expanders, cooker boards and VSMs. I learned about SDKs and platforms.

In my next post, I hope to talk more about the things I learn. I hope to eventually play with the hardware, write some C++ code, and encounter some challenges to talk about. For now, I'm mainly learning about the company's products and about the field.