If you’re new to the Network-Attached Storage ecosystem, you’re bound to come across data-hoarders with an ungodly number of hard drives. And for every neat-looking NAS filled with similar HDDs, ...

The most common way to set up multiple storage drives is to configure a RAID array. Using RAID to combine multiple drives into a larger virtual drive will generally keep systems up and running despite ...

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 ...

The home lab ecosystem has a bunch of fascinating utilities that, if properly configured, can take your setup to the next level. That said, many of these can be double-edged swords, and if you’re not ...

Use RAID 1 for your OS. It is fault tolerant. You lose the hard drive to failure, you have a spare to move or repoint your boot.ini file. RAID 0 is not fault tolerant. You lose one drive, say bye bye ...

We purchased a hardware RAID card which we plan to run a small server from. The hard drives are 20GB IDE drives. The card is from StarTech.com (PCIIDE100R) PCI Ultra ATA/100 RAID Card. The computer is ...

In the world of data storage, there’s quite a curiosity about RAID. Many users are confused and curious about adding this tool to their arsenal but are unsure about this decision. A Redundant Array of ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Have you ever wondered how multiple storage drives in your computer can work as if they were one? Even more baffling is how a computer can ...

The OWC Express 4M2 is a four-slot NVMe/M.2 enclosure that, fully populated in RAID 0, offers lots of capacity and very good performance. Speed drops in other configurations — especially in non-RAID ...