Well, it happened. Double-disk failure on 6 disk, raid-5 array. One disk failed on the hardware raid-5 array putting the array into degraded state. I swapped out the failed disk for a fresh disk and ...

It’s quiz time: what’s the single most important thing in your Mac computing environment? Is it the actual Mac model you use? Is it the size of the display attached to the Mac? The speed of the CPU?

It's not hardware RAID. The RAID is handled by the BIOS (firmware, still running on your CPU) until Windows starts to boot, at which point Intel's driver (Matrix Storage Manager, i.e. software) takes ...

RAID, or Redundant Array of Independent (or Inexpensive) Disks, used to be the province of geeks and high-end IT departments. These days, however, it is finding a growing audience among small ...

I'm reminded that when I do what I do best and don't try to be all things to all people, I get much more accomplished. Interestingly, I've found that the same approach applies to server storage system ...

Abstract — IO Processors (IOP) are key elements for storage application to attach to a Host the maximum number of IO’s such as RAID disks, capable for high speed data movement between the Host and ...

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 ...

ITworld.com – The problem: We needed to efficiently and rapidly deploy five identical systems with two large hard disks configured as a hardware-controlled RAID 1 running Linux on the ext3, a ...

If you are installing Lion on a RAID array or other custom drive setup, you may not be able to enable FileVault and other advanced volume management features. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 ...

European home improvement giant Kingfisher has projected storage cost savings of 40% on its 1PB estate over five years, following the implementation of disk and flash storage arrays from X-IO that ...