i've been going back and forth with mckennma about using dynamic disks on hardware RAID arrays. i've tried googling for the answer to the upcomming question, but, because the terms are so common, i ...

Clearly one of the best features of disk arrays is that they can continue working even when a disk has failed. One of the problems, however, is that you might not notice when a disk fails, and thus, ...

One of the first big challenges neophyte sysadmins and data hoarding enthusiasts face is how to store more than a single disk worth of data. The short—and traditional—answer here is RAID (a Redundant ...

Relatively inexpensive secondary disk storage is gaining a significant foothold in corporate data centers, according to a survey of more than 1,000 IT managers that’s due to be released next month.

AI success depends on whether enterprise data is ready, reachable, and close enough to the workloads that need it. In this eSpeaks episode, Dell Technologies’ Vrashank Jain explains why fragmented ...

Dulce Systems Corp., a provider of world-class storage solutions, today announced it is now shipping its next-generation PRO Qs. A small four drive disk Array that supports 3.5”, 2.5” and 1.8” SATA or ...

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 ...

In the wake of new government regulations requiring better corporate record-keeping, three top tape library vendors have confirmed that they’re working to combine inexpensive disk arrays with their ...

Many organizations rely on RAID to implement redundancy. The type of RAID a company ends up using will depend on its storage requirements, performance goals and budget. RAID 1 and RAID 5 are both ...

SSD cache won’t transform a hard-drive array, but it can make the small, repetitive storage tasks that feel slow noticeably ...

Modern storage arrays offer disk types to meet any need--costly Fibre Channel (FC) disks for high-end applications requiring superior performance and availability, and lower-priced SATA disks for less ...

RAID allows two or more disk drives to be seen by the operating system as one physical drive. This allows for fault tolerance on your computer so that if one drive fails, the data is securely still ...