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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 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 ...

Your computer's basic input/output system controls system-level hardware settings. For example, the BIOS has an "official" system clock. It also handles keeping track of physical hard drives, deciding ...

I’ve had the pleasure to review several of LaCie‘s Rugged-series drives in the past, and it’s always been a pleasure. I have no doubt that I’ll have the same experience today where I’ll be taking a ...