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 ...

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 ...

Many of you probably saw the RAID-0 Flash drive array that I did last year when I reviewed a bunch of USB Flash drives. If not, check out this page.<BR><BR>With this in mind, I am doing a Flash drive ...

The 180TB storage array, like many of our other hard drive-related stories, comes from our friends at Backblaze. Backblaze is a cloud-based backup company that provides unlimited storage for a fixed ...

My current NAS setup in the QNAP is a RAID1 setup of 2x 4TB drives and a RAID1 setup of 2x 8TB drives. I thought I could effectively reproduce the dual RAID1 configuration, but I'm learning that you ...

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 ...

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 ...