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 ...

Ever since its invention in the late 1980s, Raid (redundant array of inexpensive disks) has been a mainstay of data protection on shared storage arrays and in enterprise servers. But, as the capacity ...

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 ...

Today, we continue our discussion of RAID 5. When it comes to RAID 5, rebuild times are affected by four things. The first parameter is the number of drives in the array: the more drives you have, the ...

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 ...

Apple's Mac Pro computers have the capacity of holding up to four internal hard drives, and all Mac models support the use of external drives through either USB or FireWire. This allows for multiple ...

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 ...

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 ...

1 - RAIDIntro 2 - RAIDTerminology 3 - RAID0 and RAID1 4 - RAID10, 0+1, 3, and 4 5 - RAID5 and RAID6 6 - RAIDThoughts Next In the last few years RAID has become really quite popular. Once purely in the ...