Why hardware RAID is officially dead but the cheap cards are still a must-have for home servers ...

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 ...

I'm building a FreeNAS machine which has two internal SATA ports and a sil 3132 PCIx1 card with two eSATA ports. I have a 4 bay enclosure hooked up to the eSATA port. I added a 4TB drive to the ...

Since its implementation, advances in PCI Express technology were closely associated with gaming products, mainly video cards. The GPU business lead the charge for increasing bandwidth for the PCIe ...

RAID controllers are a lot of things to different people. Some like me, a power user, is able to tune the RAID block size for general use computing, balancing the small file IOPS with large sequential ...

This information is also available as a PDF download. Since I've been doing a lot of coverage of storage technology both for the enterprise and for the home lately, I thought I should give an ...

Everybody says you need RAID 0 for speed. You don't.

If you've ever looked into purchasing a NAS device or server, particularly for a small business, you've no doubt come across the term "RAID." RAID stands for Redundant Array of Inexpensive (or ...

Since the dawn of computing, long-term mass storage has been a primary factor in the design of systems. At issue is speed, density of storage, and of course, fault recovery. In the beginning of the PC ...