In my previous two articles in this space, I've explained the differences between the "single digit" RAID (Redundant Array of Inexpensive/Individual Disks) levels and ...

Data is the lifeblood of many organizations and fast, reliable access to that data is critical in order to remain in business in today's "Internet-time" world. As such, most organizations make use of ...

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 ...

Tuning Raid performance has the air of a black art to storage administrators, with the perception that it can do more harm than good. Most consider the job done once the Raid level is selected. But, ...

It’s quiz time: what’s the single most important thing in your Mac computing environment? Is it the actual Mac model you use? Is it the size of the display attached to the Mac? The speed of the CPU?

In recent time, RAID technology has been put into service in almost every application, such as desktops, servers, laptops, storage devices, and environments that require a large number of hard disk ...

RAID in its several forms provides the backbone for most of our high availability, high performance storage. RAID devices have been with us since the late-1980s, and by now are so much a part of our ...

I will soon be upgrading my NAS to a new Synology, and was wondering about RAID levels. I'm currently running a RAID5 with (4) 2TB disks in a DS410j, which was set up before the advent of SHR. My plan ...

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 ...

Mac OS X’s included Disk Utility may be more flexible than you think. One enterprising Mac user named Daniel Blade Olson has managed to craft together a RAID system using, of all things, a series of ...