This was among the driving forces behind the development of the Serial ATA standard, which showed potential to address these issues. Now in its second revision, SATA is delivering what system builders ...

Storage spaces is pretty rad and works fine as a simple standalone software raid solution, or a multi-tiered hybrid storage system. And now with storage spaces direct, apparently clustered storage. I ...

WD's latest four-bay NAS server, the My Cloud EX4, is a lot more than four single-volume My Cloud units put together. It's not the fastest NAS, nor does it include many advanced features, but the WD ...

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 ...

Unfortunately for RAID 5, there are some controllers and available guides that default to this RAID type, regardless of drive ...

QNAP have announced their latest network-attached storage device, the four-bay SS-439 Pro Turbo NAS. Capable of establishing various levels of RAID array for up to 2TB of total capacity, the SS-439 is ...

Sure, you can now get a terabyte of networked attached storage for under $1,000. But will that price buy you RAID levels 0, 1, 1+0, and 5? Or an 8-port 10/100Mbps Ethernet LAN switch? Or built-in ...

I'm slowly assembling the components for a new home server. My plan for the system so far is as follows: The plan is to use the two system drives in RAID 0 for redundancy, and then build a RAID 5 ...

In an IBM blog labeled "Keep Your Friends Close and Your Data Closer" by Matthew Drahzal, a leader in IBM's Systems & Technology Group (STG), has announced a new storage server for bring ...

French data center and cloud provider Scaleway has retrofitted around 14,000 servers to triple their usable lifespan. In a recent blog post, the company said removing the physical RAID controllers and ...