Hard drives fail, and they do it much more often than we'd like to think. Even if you've set up automated hard drive backups, you're not necessarily getting the best backup bang for your ...

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 ...

RAID 10 vs RAID 50: What is the best way to configure a storage array with 16 1 TB drives and why? It is proposed to set up two these boxes. RAID 10 vs RAID 50: The RAID level you use will increase or ...

Yesterday, Intel Storage Matrix reported that one of the drives in my RAID 1 array was having errors. I'm trying to troubleshoot the issue and diagnose if there's something wrong with the driver or ...

Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 products each year to help you make better buying decisions and get more from technology. Backing up your data is like taking out the trash or ...

RAID: It’s not just for Warcraft nerds anymore. If you’ve got a ton of music, photos and video and you don’t know about RAID hard-drive arrays yet, read this—or wave your precious media files buh-bye.

Modern storage arrays offer disk types to meet any need--costly Fibre Channel (FC) disks for high-end applications requiring superior performance and availability, and lower-priced SATA disks for less ...

As you can see from the throughput chart, the RAID5 (with four drives), all out sequential performance is out of this world at 218 MB/sec (1.744 gbps) read and 193 MB/sec (1.544 gbps) write, which ...

RAID 50 is an often overlooked RAID level that can bridge the gap when it comes to choosing between RAID 5, RAID 6, and RAID 10. Scott Lowe explains why RAID 50 is his favorite RAID level. RAID 50 is ...

When Apple released the new Retina MacBook Pro last October, it also marked the debut of Thunderbolt 2 in an Apple product. But with no Thunderbolt 2 peripherals available at the time, we here in the ...