If you've ever looked into purchasing a NAS device or server, particularly for a small business, you've no doubt come across the term "RAID." RAID stands for Redundant Array of Inexpensive (or ...

Whether it’s a small enterprise or multinational corporation, data is a valuable asset for businesses of all types and sizes. To avoid catastrophic data loss, many businesses rely on RAID. If you also ...

Most RAID levels employ striping, it is a term used to describe when individual files are split and written to more than one disk. Striping is the way that RAID gets around the performance limitation ...

RedShark Replay: Phil Rhodes explains the background and the (then) latest developments in the ever-evolving world of RAID (first published in July 2013). I can't wait until my computer contains no ...

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 ...

RAID, which stands for redundant array of independent (or inexpensive) disks, is a method of placing the same data in different locations on multiple hard drives. There are many different types of ...

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RAID: It’s not just for Warcraft nerds anymore. If you’ve got a ton of music, photos and video and you don’t know about RAID hard-drive arrays yet, read this—or wave your precious media files buh-bye.

In the late 1980s, processing power and memory performance were increasing by more than 40% each year. However, due to mechanical limitations, hard drive performance was not able to keep up. To ...

Any s torage consolidation effort must involve a serious consideration of disk subsystems and the specific disk types that those systems will contain. As an example, there may be hundreds (even ...