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 ...

In terms of raw price/performance, RAID 0 has the lowest cost. All disk space is used to store data; none is used for mirroring or parity data. Performance is good in terms of I/O, as data is striped ...

In simple layman’s terms, RAID is a technology that allows users to combine multiple physical disk drives into a single unit. This improves data storage performance and reliability, enhances data ...

There are six main types of RAID array architectures: RAID-0 through RAID-5. When combining RAID 0 and RAID 1 (sometimes called RAID 10), we actually have seven variants of RAID arrays. Each provides ...

RAID is one of the most common terms thrown around in the home lab ecosystem, though there’s a lot more to it than meets the eye. Despite offering some protection ...

Which RAID level should be used with three hard disks of 146 GB and one of 300 GB? All the main RAID levels are possible, but which RAID level you choose in this case depends on the criticality of the ...

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'm setting up my first RAID system here at work. It's a Maxtronic Arena II U3 enclosure they ordered awhile back before I started, and I'm setting it up as a backup file server. It's got an U160 SCSI ...

Redundant disk systems reach small businesses. You can’t prevent hard disk drives from failing, but you can protect your data by using redundant disks. Often used in servers but rarely desktops, ...

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 ...

The ultimate solution for building reliable high-performance storage systems for mission-critical database applications in telecommunications requires a combination of industry standards: the ...

As a topic, backups is one of those subject likely to elicit as many answers as people you ask about it. It is as personal a choice as your desktop configuration or your operating system. So in this ...