Can I add an old hard drive to RAID sets on servers? In answering this question, let’s assume that the old hard drive used to be an internal drive within a particular host or was incorporated within a ...

Traditional RAID wastes your storage space: Why my 100TB NAS uses Unraid instead ...

Okay what are the benefits/drawbacks of having, say, 2 250 GB hard drives aligned together in "RAID 0", vs. a single, standard 500 GB hard drive?<BR><BR>I get the impression that RAID is somehow ...

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 ...

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 ...

This cleverly disguised 2.5-inch RAID enclosure drastically improved the performance of our hard drives in RAID 0. But continuing problems with configuring SSDs leaves us unable to recommend it in ...

RAID 0 Performance RAID 1 Performance The WD Purple 6TB surveillance hard drive scales well and shows pretty close to double the performance in RAID 0 setups and barely any impact when in a RAID 1 ...

Does anyone know of an external hard drive device that contains two hard drives factory configured in a RAID mirror?<BR><BR>Looking to use it as external data storage with some level of ...

The folks over at Apricorn - a 26 year old company in SoCal - sent me their new PCIe Drive Array to review. A new video capture card requires higher bandwidth storage - over 100 MB/s sustained - so ...

Testing a mechanical hard drive’s performance is pretty straightforward and there isn’t much to say about. I will be testing the drive, in this case, the WD Purple 6TB Surveillance hard disk, in a ...