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 ...

Ever since its invention in the late 1980s, Raid (redundant array of inexpensive disks) has been a mainstay of data protection on shared storage arrays and in enterprise servers. But, as the capacity ...

Am I missing something here... ? It was my understanding that with a RAID setup, it was possible to increase performance (not taking into account reliability) above that of a single disk. Let's say I ...

Hey guys, I've been doing the research and I'm confused at which is better for my needs: I'm in the film business and I download the footage from the camera's, and that generates A LOT of data per ...

RAID allows two or more disk drives to be seen by the operating system as one physical drive. This allows for fault tolerance on your computer so that if one drive fails, the data is securely still ...

In the first post on this subject I discussed btrfs basics, showing how to create simple btrfs filesystems. In the second post, more on btrfs, I showed how btrfs filesystems can be dynamically resized ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The global redundant array of inexpensive disks (RAID) controller card market is expected to grow at a CAGR of more than 3% from 2017-2021, according to a new market research ...

Apple’s Disk Utility is usually the go-to app for reformatting, partitioning, and diagnosing storage devices on your Mac. For many years, the Disk Utility app stayed the same in terms of features and ...

Data Robotics Corporation thinks highly of its Drobo units. It calls them “the world’s first data robot.” It calls its technology “beyond RAID.” I like the product, but I think maybe Data Robotics is ...