I'll soon be setting up my new computer - A64 3200+ on MSI K8N motherboard using 2 Samsung 120GB SATA drives in RAID 0. I will be installing Windows XP on this computer, but want the capability of ...

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 ...

Well, while I'm waiting on my data to copy over to the new RAID array, I thought I'd come in and share with you my experience with Software RAID, the Linux way.<BR><BR>First, some background. My home ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 usual, this blog post comes out of something I have been working on (read as: struggling with) for the past few days. The purpose is to give an overview of disk partitioning under Linux, ...