ITworld.com – Imagine you’ve just received shipment of a new Sun server, pre-installed with Solaris 9 and ready for setup as a web server for your small company. Now imagine that you want to take ...

As useful as a NAS can be, it's also hardware that's really expensive to set up—a good NAS with several terabytes of storage ...

First, let’s look at setting up a RAID configuration on an Intel X58 motherboard. In this case, I’m setting up two SSDs as a RAID 0 striped array. Setting up RAID 1 is similar; you just need to choose ...

Businesses can set up a redundant array of independent disks, or RAID, configuration to duplicate data on a device, protect against data failure or improve write performance on a volume. Some ASUS ...

The great thing about creating RAID volumes in Linux is that it’s so easy. RAID is really important for servers, and like most server software on Linux, it gets a lot of development attention. In our ...

RAID, redundant array of independent (or inexpensive) disks, is a system that employs two or more disk drives in combination, through hardware or software, for performance and fault tolerance. RAID ...

My standard drive setup includes an SSD with the OS, apps, and an admin account; and a separate HD with two partitions. The larger, outer partition has my main user account and all associated files ...

This information is also available as a PDF download. Since I've been doing a lot of coverage of storage technology both for the enterprise and for the home lately, I thought I should give an ...

Overview: RAID-enabled external storage provides better data protection and improved performance compared to single-drive ...

I have a Dell Precision 390 running Vista Business with Intel Matrix Storage Manager managing RAID 1 with 2 x 300GB drives, volume size is 300GB. I'd like to replace the drives with 2 x 1TB, however ...

Since the late 1980s, RAID has been a fundamental method of data protection. But RAID arose in a world of SAN and NAS in hardware array products. Now the cloud and technologies such as object storage ...

ITworld.com – In last week’s column, we examined the process of setting up RAID volumes on a Solaris 9 server. The process is surprisingly straightforward when there are no file systems on the target ...