This was among the driving forces behind the development of the Serial ATA standard, which showed potential to address these issues. Now in its second revision, SATA is delivering what system builders ...

Storage spaces is pretty rad and works fine as a simple standalone software raid solution, or a multi-tiered hybrid storage system. And now with storage spaces direct, apparently clustered storage. I ...

WD's latest four-bay NAS server, the My Cloud EX4, is a lot more than four single-volume My Cloud units put together. It's not the fastest NAS, nor does it include many advanced features, but the WD ...

Unfortunately for RAID 5, there are some controllers and available guides that default to this RAID type, regardless of drive ...

Another major advantage of an HBA is how naturally it scales. Consumer motherboards usually top out at six to eight SATA ports, and expanding beyond that often means stacking cheap SATA cards or ...

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Former CNET editor Dong Ngo has been involved with technology since 2000, starting with testing gadgets and writing code for CNET Labs' benchmarks. He managed CNET's San Francisco Labs, reviews 3D ...

It's hard to understate the impact of NAND flash and SSDs. Over the last decade, these storage solutions have transformed the entire market. But long before we had massive solid-state storage, we had ...

LSI will use next week's Microsoft TechEd conference to unveil a new solution that allows high-availability storage clusters to be built with commodity hardware and Microsoft's Windows Server 2012.

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 ...