One of the first big challenges neophyte sysadmins and data hoarding enthusiasts face is how to store more than a single disk worth of data. The short—and traditional—answer here is RAID (a Redundant ...

If the inside of your Mac is no more mysterious to you than the inside of your sock drawer, an internal hardware RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) array may be the perfect way to add lots of ...

One of my Hyper-V hosts rebooted over the weekend (Windows updates) and one Hyper-V guest never came back. Here's the physical host disk config I setup months ago: Disk0 (one volume C RAID 1 internal ...

Modern storage arrays offer disk types to meet any need--costly Fibre Channel (FC) disks for high-end applications requiring superior performance and availability, and lower-priced SATA disks for less ...

Any organization that’s serious about its data integrity uses storage systems based on RAID level 6 (that’s block-level striping with double distributed parity) which can tolerate the failure of two ...

Clearly one of the best features of disk arrays is that they can continue working even when a disk has failed. One of the problems, however, is that you might not notice when a disk fails, and thus, ...

New high-end arrays include full disk encryption and solid-state disks, and offer up to 2.5 times the performance and 50 percent more energy efficiency For the first time in three years, IBM has ...

Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) has relaxed its pricing on external storage software licenses for the newest high-end array the USP-V, along with its rebranded version from Hewlett-Packard (HP), the ...