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 ...

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 ...

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What is RAID, why do you need it, and what are all those mode numbers that are constantly bandied about? RAID stands for “Redundant Array of Independent Disks” or “Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks ...

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: 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.

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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 ...