RAID arrays are designed to allow one or two individual drives to fail without losing access to the data. Parity data is added to your data to enable data access even after drive failure(s). The ...

A co-worker and I were discussing our server's RAID setup today and he asked which drives were set up as the master drives in our arrays. This puzzled me as I had never heard of a RAID-1 array having ...

With the recent changes in my HW inventory I ended up with two almost identical Samsung F1 1TB drives. One is currently my OS drive and the other one is a multimedia storage one. Now, I am thinking ...

eSpeaks’ Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...

All of your storage should not live in the same room.

The RAID storage supplier Infortrend claims to have launched the world's first disk drive in the small 2.5-inch format to come with the controller in the unit. The EonStor drives will come in two ...

While RAID 10 and RAID 1 are both mirroring technologies that utilise half of the available drives for data, there's one crucial difference: the number of drives that can be used in a RAID group. RAID ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Have you ever wondered how multiple storage drives in your computer can work as if they were one? Even more baffling is how a computer can ...

The Akitio Palm RAID is an ultracompact Thunderbolt portable drive that has RAID support. But is it worth the hefty $600 price? Here's CNET's full review. Dong Ngo Former SF Labs Manager, Editor ...

Can I add an old hard drive to RAID sets on servers? In answering this question, let’s assume that the old hard drive used to be an internal drive within a particular host or was incorporated within a ...

This cleverly disguised 2.5-inch RAID enclosure drastically improved the performance of our hard drives in RAID 0. But continuing problems with configuring SSDs leaves us unable to recommend it in ...