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, ...

While mostly known for award-winning graphics and video cards, NVIDIA also produces controller and bridge chipsets for motherboards. Some NVIDIA chipset motherboards ship with integrated Redundant ...

Lately, when I look at the specifications of new mainboards and their configuration, seeing SATA RAID or ATA RAID on the board comes as no surprise. Many of the manufacturers are now offering their ...

Storage disk failures and capacity and performance issues are a fact of life for server administrators. Grouping disks together through RAID, though, helps to minimize the impact. RAID is one of the ...

How do you calculate the disk space available for data storage and how much disk space is utilised for parity storage in a RAID 5 configuration? RAID 5, if applied correctly and against a suitable I/O ...

Sure, your standard Time Machine backup is a good start, but a mirrored RAID setup will keep your data doubly backed up. Here’s how to get started. We usually store our photos, documents, and more on ...

What is the maximum number of physical drives in a RAID 5 configuration? For example, will data recovery in case of drive failure(s) be practical if I have seven 146 GB drives? RAID 5 recovery: A RAID ...

Businesses that don't utilize cloud storage to back up their data -- and perhaps even those that do -- should consider making use of a redundant array of independent disks or RAID configuration to ...

Ayush Pande is a PC hardware and gaming writer. When he's not working on a new article, you can find him with his head stuck inside a PC or tinkering with a server operating system. Besides computing, ...

I have installed four hard disks of 146 GB using RAID-5 (auto configuration) on an HP server DL380. On the disk space, it shows a total of only three disks. Is the problem that the other one has been ...