The need to measure drive array cost-performance in terms of Input/Output Operations per second (IOPs) per Rack Unit or Megabytes per Rack Unit is forcing drive array vendors to allocate as many ...

I've currently got a 1.5 TB RAID 5 array (4x500GB Western Digital RE2), as well as a 1 TB and a 1.5 TB not in RAID, with my OS on an SSD. I believe the 1 TB is dying after years of heavy use, so I ...

How valuable is your data? If your storage drive crashed, would it ruin your day? Your week? Your entire career? Only you can answer those questions for yourself and your organization. But I'll tell ...

Imagine a six-drive array of 80GB hard drives that fits entirely in a single 5.25-inch, 1/2 height drive bay. This is made possible by using 2.5-inch drives primarily targeted for laptop systems. We ...

When it comes to building a redundant array of independent disks (RAID), there's always the potential to choose the wrong RAID type. This shouldn't cause any issues with storing data, but it could ...

The folks over at Apricorn - a 26 year old company in SoCal - sent me their new PCIe Drive Array to review. A new video capture card requires higher bandwidth storage - over 100 MB/s sustained - so ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — An industry group is releasing its first specification on Monday (Sept. 25) to bring standards to the rapidly growing market for hard-disk drive arrays. In addition, IBM and Network ...

Serial-attached SCSI promises more flexible enterprise storage, while new low-power, 2.5-inch models deliver better performance That old standby storage standard, SCSI, is about to get a makeover. Two ...

A co-worker and I were bored last week and wondered about the possibility of taking a large number of old USB thumb drives of various sizes and connecting them in a RAID setup. I'm not incredibly ...

Nimbus Data Systems today announced a new all-NAND flash storage array aimed at enterprise-class data centers that it said matches disk arrays on price, but outperforms everywhere else. Nimbus’s new E ...

I recently got into a conversation with David Szabados of Seagate Technology regarding their whole drive encryption and its contribution to corporate security. He told me about an interesting new ...