Pick the wrong RAID level, and you might end up losing all your data ...

RAID takes the first place for data storing technology when you need high performance and reliability. It seems like having all facilities in a box such as large storage, fault-tolerance, parity check ...

RAID is one of the most common terms thrown around in the home lab ecosystem, though there’s a lot more to it than meets the eye. Despite offering some protection ...

Which RAID level should be used with three hard disks of 146 GB and one of 300 GB? All the main RAID levels are possible, but which RAID level you choose in this case depends on the criticality of the ...

There are six main types of RAID array architectures: RAID-0 through RAID-5. When combining RAID 0 and RAID 1 (sometimes called RAID 10), we actually have seven variants of RAID arrays. Each provides ...

RAID, which stands for redundant array of independent (or inexpensive) disks, is a method of placing the same data in different locations on multiple hard drives. There are many different types of ...

Alongside a slew of other announcements today, Apple quietly introduced a new RAID card for the Mac Pro, available as an option from the online Apple Store. Apple says the card offers up to 304MB/s of ...

Since the dawn of computing, long-term mass storage has been a primary factor in the design of systems. At issue is speed, density of storage, and of course, fault recovery. In the beginning of the PC ...

In multimedia environments, storage is king. When it comes to video editing, the faster the storage, the better. And big storage capacity doesn’t hurt either. For years, expensive high-speed SCSI or ...

Redundant disk systems reach small businesses. You can’t prevent hard disk drives from failing, but you can protect your data by using redundant disks. Often used in servers but rarely desktops, ...

IMGCAP(1)]When I first started writing this post, it was going to be on Network Attached Storage (NAS). That’s a topic of which every network user should have at least a basic knowledge. But when I ...

Positioning it as a “cost efficient alternative to Apple’s Xserve RAID,” the dr group (formerly Dr RawStock) on Monday announced its DRaid Serial ATA RAID storage system. Aimed at digital content ...