Here's our essential guide to all the different types of RAID setup. It's almost as if camera manufacturers are somehow dedicated to keeping hard disk manufacturers in business. By the early 2000s, it ...

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 ...

RAID-Z1, on the other hand, gets rid of it entirely. While it stores data and parity information in different disk layouts, ...

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 ...

Your computer's basic input/output system controls system-level hardware settings. For example, the BIOS has an "official" system clock. It also handles keeping track of physical hard drives, deciding ...

Title: Managing RAID on LinuxAuthor: Derek VadalaPublisher: O'Reilly & AssociatesISBN: 1-56592-730-3Price: $39.95 US, $61.95 CAN Almost every Linux system administrator probably is familiar with the ...

I have an ancient Dell Dimension 8400 that no longer boots. It was running Windows Server (2003? 2008?) with a 3-drive RAID 5 array using the motherboard chipset RAID. I found the system unresponsive ...

Stevey, admitted confused by the benefits of RAIDs, asked the Answer Line forum to explain these hard drive groups. A Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) puts multiple hard drives together to ...

Former CNET editor Dong Ngo has been involved with technology since 2000, starting with testing gadgets and writing code for CNET Labs' benchmarks. He managed CNET's San Francisco Labs, reviews 3D ...

Storage has changed rapidly during the last decade. Prior to that, server-class disks were proprietary in all senses of the word. They used proprietary protocols, they generally were sold by the ...