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 ...

Sure, you can now get a terabyte of networked attached storage for under $1,000. But will that price buy you RAID levels 0, 1, 1+0, and 5? Or an 8-port 10/100Mbps Ethernet LAN switch? Or built-in ...

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 ...

Parity > RAID.

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 ...

I would like to have two servers with two different storage configurations, but similar, if not the same, base hardware and controller. First server: 250GB x 3+1 SATA RAID-5 (SBS 2008 Premium server ...

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 ...

RAID 0 isn't worth it—unless you're backing it up every night ...

Editors' note: This post is part of an ongoing series. For the other parts, check out the related stories. Now that you have some ideas about internal storage vs. memory after reading Part 1, here in ...