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 ...

RAID or Redundant Array of Independent Disks combines multiple disks into a single storage pool that the operating system views as a single drive. While enterprise systems use hardware RAID with a ...

If you were to gauge RAID 5’s utility just by looking at a RAID calculator, it would seem like an efficient option for most ...

How valuable is your data? If your storage drive crashed, would it ruin your day? Your week? Your entire career? Only you can answer those questions for yourself and your organization. But I'll tell ...

Creative professionals demand reliable, high-capacity storage solutions, and the LaCie 2big RAID 28TB Desktop Hard Drive delivers on all fronts. Currently discounted to $788.50 on Amazon (21% off its ...

RAID 5 explained: RAID 5 sees the distribution of parity information between all drives in the RAID set and is resilient against the failure of a single disk. So, how does RAID 5 share data in a 10 MB ...

Brainout asked the Hard Drives, NAS Drives, Storage forum to explain some of the words used to describe hard drives and storage. Technical terms can get overwhelming, especially when they include too ...

Seagate's LaCie brand is well-known for its line of rugged, durable hard drives that are protected by an iconic orange bumper, and this spring, LaCie unveiled its latest accessory in the rugged lineup ...

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Secondary hard drives are commonly added to a computer to increase the data storage capacity, but they can also be used to improve system performance. Hard drives are the slowest part of the computer ...